Dancing In the Dark AI · Bruce Springsteen

150 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 13-30 and 37-49, and 6 more places -- 80.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DANCING IN THE DARK AI · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 8 sections: 142 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-144.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
3 groovesABEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dancing In the Dark AI?

150 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 In the Dark AI hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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