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Run While Dancing · Dave Badiuk

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 17 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART E
8 groovesCBES2S1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Run While Dancing on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-66, kick and crashes through bars 67-81 and toms through bars 82-84, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-29 and 34-65 -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    14
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---o-------o---x---o-------o---|
BD |x-------x-------x-x-----x-------|
Run While Dancing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 12-66 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Run While Dancing?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Run While Dancing hard to play on drums?

60 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED