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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 1 OF 31
Groove B -- Chorus 3
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
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 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

45 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
3:36
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-95, silence through bars 96-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-108.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
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

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 30 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-27 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-65 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 62-74 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-96 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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?

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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