SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK · Joji

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-24 and 41-54 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 6 sections: 56 keep time, 1 is a fill and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK?

90 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 SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 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 SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

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