Tones and I · Dance Monkey

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-28, 45-52 and 57-60, and 1 more place -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
TONES AND I · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 16 sections: 55 keep time and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-28.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDS1BEH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tones and I?

98 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 Tones and I hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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