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Dancing Shoes · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 28 OF 38
2-bar fill at bar 65
67 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dancing Shoes on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, toms through bars 11-17, snare through bars 18-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-41, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx--o---oo--x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |--------x---x---|
Dancing Shoes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- J, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-29 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-74 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED