Murder On The Dancefloor · Sophie Ellis-Bextor

16 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 0:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

ElectronicPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
16
LENGTH
0:33
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14 -- 71.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 117 BPM
MURDER ON THE DANCEFLOOR · BAR 11
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

16 bars across 2 sections: 7 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Murder On The Dancefloor?

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 hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

16 bars, about 0:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 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.

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