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Dream As One · Miley Cyrus

EXERCISE 11 OF 29
Groove F
67 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS 3, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART A
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBS1AS9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dream As One on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-20, ride through bars 21-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-30, ride through bars 31-34 and silence through bars 35-37, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-52, 54-55 and 62-68, and 3 more places -- 46.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---|
Dream As One -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 53, 69, 73, 77, 93 and 101.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 24-56 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 84-105 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dream As One?

134 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 Dream As One hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Dream As One?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 53, 69, 73, 77, 93 and 101.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED