Dancing Barefoot · Patti Smith

123 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockPunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21 and 29-31, and 10 more places -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 114 BPM
DANCING BAREFOOT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 20, 28, 48, 88, 100 and 1 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 11 sections: 103 keep time, 7 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-123.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART E
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dancing Barefoot?

114 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?

44 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?

123 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

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?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 20, 28, 48, 88, 100 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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