Do You Wanna Dance? · The Beach Boys

84 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-23, and 6 more places -- 72.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 148 BPM
DO YOU WANNA DANCE? · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 65 and 77.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 4 sections: 67 keep time, 2 are fills, 5 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-53.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Do You Wanna Dance??

148 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 Do You Wanna Dance? hard to play on drums?

32 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Do You Wanna Dance??

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 65 and 77.

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