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Dancing In the Dark AI · Bruce Springsteen

EXERCISE 4 OF 13
Join Chorus to Part B (bars 5-7)
137 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
3 groovesABEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dancing In the Dark AI on drums

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

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-144 and snare through bars 145-150.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Dancing In the Dark AI -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-37 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus 3 and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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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