A LITTLE DREAM OF ME · Cong Duong

124 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 25 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
A LITTLE DREAM OF ME · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 17, 33, 39, 55, 57 and 7 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 16 sections: 64 keep time, 13 are fills, 14 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-96.

PART S5
PART I
PART K
CHORUS
PART D
PART S12
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
11 groovesFKDGS12+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A LITTLE DREAM OF ME?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is A LITTLE DREAM OF ME hard to play on drums?

46 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in A LITTLE DREAM OF ME?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 17, 33, 39, 55, 57 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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