Dancing With Tears In My Eyes · Ultravox

143 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9-23 and 25-39, and 7 more places -- 72.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 143 BPM
DANCING WITH TEARS IN MY EYES · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 5 sections: 135 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-71.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCNJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dancing With Tears In My Eyes?

143 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 With Tears In My Eyes hard to play on drums?

56 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 With Tears In My Eyes?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.

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