← SONGS

夢灯籠 (Dream Lantern) · RADWIMPS

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove R -- Outro
0 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesS1KDRGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 夢灯籠 (Dream Lantern) on drums

74 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 1:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
1:43
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-48, ride through bars 49-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49, 53 and 57-59, and 2 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x---------x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
夢灯籠 (Dream Lantern) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 35, 36, 44, 47, 48 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- R -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-38 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-71 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is 夢灯籠 (Dream Lantern)?

172 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 夢灯籠 (Dream Lantern) hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 1:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 夢灯籠 (Dream Lantern)?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 35, 36, 44, 47, 48 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED