Where Have You Been, My Disco · IV OF SPADES

108 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 33 and 35-41, and 8 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, MY DISCO · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 28 and 60.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 7 sections: 93 keep time, 2 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-92.

CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesFBMS6S1Fill 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?

54 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Where Have You Been, My Disco?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 28 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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