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She's Got Me Dancing · Edson Traore

She's Got Me Dancing · Edson Traore
EXERCISE 8 OF 35
Groove F
71 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play She's Got Me Dancing on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-98.

The beat

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.

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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
She's Got Me Dancing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-62 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Verse 3 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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