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Dangerous Tonight · Alice Cooper

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove E -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dangerous Tonight on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-11, silence through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-39, snare through bars 40-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-81, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Dangerous Tonight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- E, C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-46 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 62-67 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 67-104 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 105-124 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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