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Murder on the Dance Floor (triple j Like A Version) · Royel Otis

EXERCISE 32 OF 37
Fill at bar 85 (a small one)
88 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART C
PART I
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesLCIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Murder on the Dance Floor (triple j Like A Version) on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50, kick and crashes through bars 51-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-90.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 6-8 and 11-12, and 7 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxx-x-xxxxx-x-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Murder on the Dance Floor (triple j Like A Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 9, 16, 25, 34, 41 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C, L, I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-76 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-51 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-82 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Murder on the Dance Floor (triple j Like A Version)?

123 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 Murder on the Dance Floor (triple j Like A Version) hard to play on drums?

45 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Murder on the Dance Floor (triple j Like A Version)?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 9, 16, 25, 34, 41 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED