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You Make Me Feel Like Dancing · Leo Sayer

EXERCISE 20 OF 25
Join Part K to Outro (bars 45-47)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesALIKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Make Me Feel Like Dancing on drums

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

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-42, toms through bars 43-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-67.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
You Make Me Feel Like Dancing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- A, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-45 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-54 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-58 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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