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Tones and I · Dance Monkey

Tones and I · Dance Monkey
EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove D -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDS1BEH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tones and I on drums

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

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-28, silence through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44 and kick and crashes through bars 45-52, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Tones and I -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D, B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 18-38 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 37-54 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 53-67 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 66-78 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

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