Tiny Dancer · Elton John

97 bars, 5:10, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

PopRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-38, 40-42 and 44-45, and 3 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
TINY DANCER · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 29, 31, 33, 34, 35, 39 and 11 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 12 sections: 62 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-24.

VERSE
PART G
CHORUS
PART S
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesNCSGJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tiny Dancer?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Tiny Dancer hard to play on drums?

60 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Tiny Dancer?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 29, 31, 33, 34, 35, 39 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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