Darkest Dreams · Dhalif ali

101 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 35 and 37, and 8 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DARKEST DREAMS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 23, 31, 42, 49, 57, 74 and 7 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 74-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 10 sections: 48 keep time, 13 are fills, 9 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-65.

PART S1
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFS1CTH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Darkest Dreams?

120 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 Darkest Dreams hard to play on drums?

48 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Darkest Dreams?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 23, 31, 42, 49, 57, 74 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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