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Dancing In The Moonlight · Toploader

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove E -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART S1
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesES1S3DS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dancing In The Moonlight on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
62/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-58, silence through bars 59-65, hi-hat through bars 66-81 and toms through bars 82-83, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-13, 16-17 and 20-21, and 19 more places -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    12               13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--g-x-o---g-x-o-|--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----X-------X---|----X-------X---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x-X-x-----|
HF |x-------x-------|x---------------|
Dancing In The Moonlight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 86, 87, 88, 89, 93 and 97.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part S3 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 78-92 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dancing In The Moonlight?

119 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 Moonlight hard to play on drums?

62 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:50 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, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dancing In The Moonlight?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 86, 87, 88, 89, 93 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED