Spooks · Dance Gavin Dance

171 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 131, 135 and 139, and 2 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 137 BPM
SPOOKS · BAR 131
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 32, 57, 65 and 9 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 12 sections: 123 keep time, 15 are fills, 9 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 154-168.

PART C
PART F
PART M
PART S
PART V
PART Y
PART X
OUTRO 2
11 groovesACMFCV+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spooks?

137 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Spooks hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Spooks?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 32, 57, 65 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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