Dream Brother · Jeff Buckley

115 bars, 30:36, at 15 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
15 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
30:36
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 104-105, 107 and 109, and 2 more places -- 6.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 15 BPM
DREAM BROTHER · BAR 104
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 36, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 26 more.

LOOP · 15 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 15 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 15 BPM
BARS 46-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 15 BPM
BARS 60-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 13 sections: 58 keep time, 32 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-114.

PART A
PART N
PART T
CHORUS
PART AG
PART AJ
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesVAJBPAGBF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dream Brother?

15 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Dream Brother hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 30:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 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 Dream Brother?

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 36, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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