Dangerous Woman · Ariana Grande

169 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 134 BPM, 3:47 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaePop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9 and 13, and 61 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 134 BPM
DANGEROUS WOMAN · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 11 sections: 147 keep time, 10 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBADS4S8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dangerous Woman?

134 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Woman hard to play on drums?

30 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 1 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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