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Dancing With Myself · Billy Idol

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove B -- Outro
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OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dancing With Myself on drums

213 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 4:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-97, snare through bars 98-99, hi-hat through bars 100-165, snare through bars 166-167 and hi-hat through bars 168-213.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-68, 70-76 and 78-83, and 11 more places -- 90.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Dancing With Myself -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 69, 77, 85, 101, 113, 121 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dancing With Myself?

178 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dancing With Myself hard to play on drums?

63 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 With Myself?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 69, 77, 85, 101, 113, 121 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED