Dancing Barefoot · Patti Smith

10 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 0:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
10
LENGTH
0:21
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10 -- 85.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
DANCING BAREFOOT · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

10 bars across 2 sections: 6 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-10.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dancing Barefoot?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Dancing Barefoot hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

10 bars, about 0:21 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Dancing Barefoot?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

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