Day Dream · Dream of Illusion

114 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 4% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98-99 and 102-103 -- 3.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
DAY DREAM · BAR 98
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 68 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 6-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 18-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 100-101 · LANDS ON BAR 102 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 7 sections: 32 keep time, 74 are fills, 1 is a stop and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-46.

PART A
PART AC
CHORUS
PART BZ
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesALAS7ACBZ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Day Dream?

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 Day Dream hard to play on drums?

62 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Day Dream?

6 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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