Dancing Shoes · Arctic Monkeys

85 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-33 and 36-40 -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
DANCING SHOES · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 34, 41, 57, 65, 66 and 3 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 8 sections: 42 keep time, 9 are fills and 25 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-33.

PART C
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJCBXN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dancing Shoes?

145 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 Shoes hard to play on drums?

59 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Shoes?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 34, 41, 57, 65, 66 and 3 more.

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