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Land of 1000 Dances · Wilson Pickett

EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove B -- Outro
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OUTRO
3 groovesBAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Land of 1000 Dances on drums

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

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-104.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Land of 1000 Dances -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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