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Dream Brother · Jeff Buckley

EXERCISE 12 OF 59
Join Part H to Part K (bars 15-17)
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0 / 59 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART K
PART A
PART H
PART K
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dream Brother on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.

TEMPO
15 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
30:36
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-7, snare through bars 8-13, ride through bars 14-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-60, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    104
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |--------x---------------x-------|
HH |----------------x---------------|
T1 |--------------------x-----------|
FT |x-----------x---x---------------|
BD |--------------------x-----------|
Dream Brother -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- BP, AG -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-17 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-28 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 25-45 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part AG -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part AG and Part AJ -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part AJ and Part S10 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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