ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A dream (...is love more powerfull than death?) on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 80 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 99
LENGTH: 4:57
DIFFICULTY: 77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-34, snare through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-96 and snare through bars 97-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 71-94 -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    71                                               72
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------------o-----o-----------------o-----|o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x-----------x--x--x--x--x--------------|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|

A dream (...is love more powerfull than death?) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 18, 25, 35, 42, 46 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
and 7 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is A dream (...is love more powerfull than death?)?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 A dream (...is love more powerfull than death?) hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in A dream (...is love more powerfull than death?)?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 18, 25, 35, 42, 46 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED