Dancing Queen
ABBA · 1976
a staple for the steady piano-driven pop groove with tasteful tom fills
- Artist
- ABBA
- Year
- 1976
- Genre
- pop
- Drummer
- Roger Palm
- Tempo
- 101 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- straight-eighths pop with a light 16th swing
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
The feel
A straight-eighths pop with a light 16th swing in 4/4 around 101 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.
Form
Intro · Verse · Pre-Chorus · Chorus · Verse · Pre-Chorus · Chorus · Instrumental · Chorus · Outro
What to watch
- •Lock the shuffle triplet; the #1 mistake is letting it straighten out as you speed up.
- •Keep the 16th-note hand dead even; let the accents — not volume spikes — do the talking.
How to learn it
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