Dancing On The Edge · Warthunder

108 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 103 BPM, 3:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 30 and 32, and 10 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
DANCING ON THE EDGE · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 29, 31, 34, 35, 38, 39 and 18 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 15 sections: 51 keep time, 24 are fills, 7 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART A
PART U
PART V
PART G
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesMJGAD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dancing On The Edge?

103 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Edge hard to play on drums?

46 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 Edge?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 29, 31, 34, 35, 38, 39 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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