Dirty Dreams · Alice Cooper

117 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 15-16 and 18-19, and 7 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DIRTY DREAMS · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 46 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 1-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 11-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 11 sections: 48 keep time, 52 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-30.

PART H
PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART Y
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLRYIH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dirty Dreams?

140 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 Dirty Dreams hard to play on drums?

61 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Dirty Dreams?

15 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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