So Damn Dangerous · Dea Matrona

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 4 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 91 BPM
SO DAMN DANGEROUS · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 20, 26, 30, 34, 38 and 16 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 6 sections: 39 keep time and 22 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAGKWFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is So Damn Dangerous?

91 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 So Damn Dangerous hard to play on drums?

50 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 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 So Damn Dangerous?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 20, 26, 30, 34, 38 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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