Murder On The Dancefloor - full · Sophie Ellis-Bextor

111 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

ElectronicPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14, 25-83 and 96-110 -- 80.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 117 BPM
MURDER ON THE DANCEFLOOR - FULL · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 7 sections: 95 keep time and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-83.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCS1ES5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Murder On The Dancefloor - full?

117 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 Dancefloor - full hard to play on drums?

54 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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