Native Dance · B'Z

141 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5-7 and 17-19, and 24 more places -- 53.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
NATIVE DANCE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 13, 14, 15, 16, 24 and 26 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 31-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 10 sections: 98 keep time, 33 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-82.

INTRO
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCSFWJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Native Dance?

128 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 Native Dance hard to play on drums?

59 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Native Dance?

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 13, 14, 15, 16, 24 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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