A Million Dreams · Ziv Zaifman, Hugh Jackman & Michelle Williams

157 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
21/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 3% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 99 and 111 -- 3.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 148 BPM
A MILLION DREAMS · BAR 99
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 103, 154 and 157.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 157
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 25 sections: 44 keep time, 3 are fills, 9 are stops and 97 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-111.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS 2
PART S10
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART S22
PART C
17 groovesAS1S10CS22+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Million Dreams?

148 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 A Million Dreams hard to play on drums?

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in A Million Dreams?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 103, 154 and 157.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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