Land of 1000 Dances · Wilson Pickett

104 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulRock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-39 and 41-73, and 13 more places -- 80.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
LAND OF 1000 DANCES · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 40, 74, 92, 94, 100, 102 and 1 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 3 sections: 93 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-39.

OUTRO
3 groovesBAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Land of 1000 Dances?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Land of 1000 Dances hard to play on drums?

58 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Land of 1000 Dances?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 40, 74, 92, 94, 100, 102 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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