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

EXERCISE 1 OF 79
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

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

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-27, toms through bars 28-30, hi-hat through bars 31-52, snare through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-64, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |X-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
My Dear Lady, Will You Dance With Me Tonight? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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