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Dancing With Tears In My Eyes · Ultravox

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCNJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dancing With Tears In My Eyes on drums

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

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-143.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 95-101 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED