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Darling Dance ダーリンダンス · かいりきベア (Kairiki Bear)

EXERCISE 10 OF 46
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
37 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCLFPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Darling Dance ダーリンダンス on drums

64 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 1:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
1:40
DIFFICULTY
80/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-22, ride through bars 23-29, hi-hat through bars 30-46, ride through bars 47-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-62, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7-8 and 19-20, and 4 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    4
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
HF |g-----------g-----------g-----------g-----------|
Darling Dance ダーリンダンス -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30 and 10 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 7-23 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-31 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-39 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-51 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Darling Dance ダーリンダンス?

153 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Darling Dance ダーリンダンス hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 1:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Darling Dance ダーリンダンス?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED