Dangerous · Schoolboy q

19 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 0:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
19
LENGTH
0:53
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7 and 9-12 -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 86 BPM
DANGEROUS · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 16.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

19 bars across 3 sections: 12 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-12.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dangerous?

86 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 Dangerous hard to play on drums?

48 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

19 bars, about 0:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Dangerous?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 16.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 19 BARS ANALYSED
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