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

A Million Dreams · Ziv Zaifman, Hugh Jackman & Michelle Williams
EXERCISE 13 OF 17
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 154-156)
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS 2
PART S10
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART S22
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesAS1S10CS22+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Million Dreams on drums

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

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
21/100

silence through bars 1-36, toms through bars 37-38, silence through bars 39-40, toms through bars 41-52, silence through bars 53-86 and toms through bars 87-92, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    99
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
FT |--x-x-----------|
A Million Dreams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 101-155 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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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