Dream Deceiver · Testament

189 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-29, 31-35 and 37, and 8 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 153 BPM
DREAM DECEIVER · BARS 23-24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 54 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 19-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 15 sections: 111 keep time, 60 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-37.

PART I
PART O
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesTOIZAL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dream Deceiver?

153 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 Deceiver hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dream Deceiver?

19 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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