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Dancing On The Ceiling · Lionel Richie

Dancing On The Ceiling · Lionel Richie
EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dancing On The Ceiling on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-78, snare through bars 79-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-142.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-74 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 78-87 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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