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Time to Dance · Panic! At The Disco

EXERCISE 12 OF 47
Join Part D to Part I (bars 21-23)
105 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART I
CHORUS
PART D
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
8 groovesAIJUL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Time to Dance on drums

142 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-52, hi-hat through bars 53-60, kick and crashes through bars 61-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-82, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 37-43, and 4 more places -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-------|x-------x-x---x-|
Time to Dance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 44, 60, 61, 62, 70 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- A, I -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-37 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Time to Dance?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Time to Dance hard to play on drums?

62 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Time to Dance?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 44, 60, 61, 62, 70 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED