Let's Dance · David Bowie

123 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 9-10 and 12, and 30 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 114 BPM
LET'S DANCE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 40, 41, 42, 43, 59 and 5 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 40-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 9 sections: 84 keep time, 11 are fills and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-20.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART C
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let's Dance?

114 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 Let's Dance 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?

123 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Let's Dance?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 40, 41, 42, 43, 59 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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