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Day Dream · Dream of Illusion

Day Dream · Dream of Illusion
EXERCISE 4 OF 32
Groove CD -- Outro
6 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
PART AC
CHORUS
PART BZ
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesALAS7ACBZ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Day Dream on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
62/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-23, toms through bars 24-33, hi-hat through bars 34-60, toms through bars 61-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-65, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    98
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---------------|
SD |x-xx--x---xx--xx|
T2 |----xx--xx------|
FT |------------x---|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|
Day Dream -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- BZ -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- CD -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part W and Part AC -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part AC and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-97 -- 3 exercises, about 58 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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