She's Got Me Dancing · Edson Traore

98 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 51-53, and 3 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
SHE'S GOT ME DANCING · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 25, 26, 34, 42, 49 and 10 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 12 sections: 68 keep time, 16 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-17.

PART C
CHORUS
VERSE
PART C
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
VERSE 3
OUTRO
6 groovesHKOCS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is She's Got Me Dancing?

112 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 She's Got Me Dancing hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 She's Got Me Dancing?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 25, 26, 34, 42, 49 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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