Dancing On The Ceiling · Lionel Richie

142 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 14-20, and 20 more places -- 71.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 138 BPM
DANCING ON THE CEILING · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 21, 37, 45, 53, 62 and 10 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 5 sections: 119 keep time, 16 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-20.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dancing On The Ceiling?

138 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 On The Ceiling hard to play on drums?

47 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 On The Ceiling?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 21, 37, 45, 53, 62 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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