Dangerous Tonight · Alice Cooper

154 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-44, 46-52 and 54-58, and 8 more places -- 41.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
DANGEROUS TONIGHT · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 45, 59, 81, 88, 89, 103 and 5 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 88-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 12 sections: 80 keep time, 11 are fills, 50 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-37.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesECVMB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dangerous Tonight?

110 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 Tonight hard to play on drums?

50 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Dangerous Tonight?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 45, 59, 81, 88, 89, 103 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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