My Dear Lady, Will You Dance With Me Tonight? · Fear, And Loathing In Las Vegas

154 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Electronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16 and 97-104 -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
MY DEAR LADY, WILL YOU DANCE WITH ME TONIGHT? · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 18, 20, 28, 29, 30, 34 and 20 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 14 sections: 82 keep time, 26 are fills, 19 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-88.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
PART P
PART AF
CHORUS 2
PART AP
PART AR
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBAFARKAZ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Dear Lady, Will You Dance With Me Tonight??

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is My Dear Lady, Will You Dance With Me Tonight? hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 My Dear Lady, Will You Dance With Me Tonight??

17 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 18, 20, 28, 29, 30, 34 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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