Slow Dancing Swayin To The Music · Johnny Rivers

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 13-14 and 16-18, and 8 more places -- 44.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
SLOW DANCING SWAYIN TO THE MUSIC · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 19, 36, 45, 46, 61, 70 and 2 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 10 sections: 72 keep time, 8 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-80.

INTRO
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesADKHS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slow Dancing Swayin To The Music?

85 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 Swayin To The Music hard to play on drums?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Swayin To The Music?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 19, 36, 45, 46, 61, 70 and 2 more.

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