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A LITTLE DREAM OF ME · Cong Duong

A LITTLE DREAM OF ME · Cong Duong
EXERCISE 14 OF 44
Groove K -- Part K (a two-bar phrase)
70 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A LITTLE DREAM OF ME on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-18, silence through bars 19-25, hi-hat through bars 26-40 and snare through bars 41-49, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
A LITTLE DREAM OF ME -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- F, G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-27 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 30-53 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-69 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-90 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 105-124 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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