Dear Mr Fantasy · Traffic

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 10-15 and 18-21, and 2 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
DEAR MR FANTASY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 37, 41, 44, 45, 49 and 7 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 10 sections: 89 keep time, 13 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-104.

PART B
PART A
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGAPAHB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dear Mr Fantasy?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dear Mr Fantasy hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Dear Mr Fantasy?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 37, 41, 44, 45, 49 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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