Dream House · Deafheaven

369 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 8:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
369
LENGTH
8:57
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 241, 245-246 and 249-250, and 29 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
DREAM HOUSE · BARS 245-246
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 113 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 107 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

369 bars across 39 sections: 143 keep time, 113 are fills, 28 are stops and 47 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-119.

PART D
PART D
PART S31
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
14 groovesBIDBBKS31+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dream House?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dream House hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

369 bars, about 8:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 26 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 House?

27 fills to learn, played 113 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 107 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 369 BARS ANALYSED
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