Dancing With You (Baby) · James Smith

101 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-32, and 5 more places -- 92.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DANCING WITH YOU (BABY) · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars: 101 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-101.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dancing With You (Baby)?

120 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 You (Baby) hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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