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Dream Deceiver · Testament

EXERCISE 27 OF 75
Fill at bar 46, 82 and 122 (a small one)
116 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dream Deceiver on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, toms through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-40, ride through bars 41-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-44, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23               24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|--------x---x---|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o-----------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxx---xxxxxx|xxxxxxxxx---x---|
Dream Deceiver -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- O, T -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-13 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 7-26 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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