Where Have You Been, My Disco? · IV Of Spades

108 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 16-20 and 26, and 4 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, MY DISCO? · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 15 sections: 90 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-50.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART C
VERSE 2
OUTRO
7 groovesBCDGI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where Have You Been, My Disco??

120 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 Where Have You Been, My Disco? hard to play on drums?

45 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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