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On The Floor · Jennifer Lopez

On The Floor · Jennifer Lopez
EXERCISE 15 OF 34
Groove H -- Part H
56 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 4
PART H
PART I
PART I
BREAK 6
VERSE
PART H
OUTRO
17 groovesDGIS10S16+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play On The Floor on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-16, silence through bars 17-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-26 and silence through bars 27-28, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16 and 19-26 -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
On The Floor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 98.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- D, G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-32 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-37 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-93 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and the Break 5 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-92 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 91-100 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is On The Floor?

130 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 On The Floor hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 On The Floor?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED