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Dirty Dreams · Alice Cooper

EXERCISE 22 OF 62
Groove S
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dirty Dreams on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-35, ride through bars 36-43, hi-hat through bars 44-57 and ride through bars 58-67, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |--g-x-----g-x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Dirty Dreams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- I, R -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-102 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 22-62 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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