Army Dreamers · Kate Bush

76 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 72 BPM, 3:09 of playing on snare, mid tom and floor tom.

PopProgressiveUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
13/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 7-26 and 28, and 12 more places -- 78.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 72 BPM
ARMY DREAMERS · BAR 7
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars: 75 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-75.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Army Dreamers?

72 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Army Dreamers hard to play on drums?

13 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many limbs land on the same note. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, mid tom and floor tom. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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