← SONGS

Do You Wanna Dance? · The Beach Boys

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 56 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Do You Wanna Dance? on drums

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

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
32/100

snare through bars 2-26, silence through bars 27-28, snare through bars 29-54, silence through bars 55-56, snare through bars 57-58 and ride through bars 59-65, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Do You Wanna Dance? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 4 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED