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Dancing Mad · The Black Mages

EXERCISE 1 OF 81
Groove AT -- Outro
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PART H
CHORUS
PART AA
OUTRO
28 groovesS25ATAAMH+23Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dancing Mad on drums

290 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 8:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
290
LENGTH
8:49
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-5, silence through bars 6-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-9 and silence through bars 10-11, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 243, 245 and 247, and 16 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    243
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x-------x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x---------------x---|
Dancing Mad -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 24, 26, 86, 88, 107, 108 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- AT, M -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part S7 and the Break 6 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-43 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-88 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 87-98 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 97-111 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 112-131 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dancing Mad?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Mad hard to play on drums?

61 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

290 bars, about 8:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Mad?

18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 24, 26, 86, 88, 107, 108 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 290 BARS ANALYSED