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Where Have You Been, My Disco · IV OF SPADES

Where Have You Been, My Disco · IV OF SPADES
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EXERCISE 21 OF 21
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesFBMS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where Have You Been, My Disco on drums

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

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-92, silence through bars 93-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-108.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Where Have You Been, My Disco -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-49 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 91-108 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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