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Dancing On The Edge · Warthunder

Dancing On The Edge · Warthunder
EXERCISE 29 OF 50
Groove S
66 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dancing On The Edge on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-24, silence through bars 25-27, ride through bars 28-41, toms through bars 42-45 and silence through bars 46-47, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x----x----x-|
Dancing On The Edge -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- G -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-48 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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