You Make Me Feel Like Dancing · Leo Sayer

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 7-14 and 16-19, and 9 more places -- 55.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 93 BPM
YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE DANCING · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 23, 34 and 56.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 6 sections: 58 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-22.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesALIKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Make Me Feel Like Dancing?

93 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 You Make Me Feel Like Dancing hard to play on drums?

48 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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.

How many fills are in You Make Me Feel Like Dancing?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 23, 34 and 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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