Dream No More · Metallica

317 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 6:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
317
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-37, 39-44 and 46, and 17 more places -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 196 BPM
DREAM NO MORE · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 83, 86, 87, 91, 152, 153 and 8 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 86-87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 152-153 · LANDS ON BAR 154 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

317 bars across 17 sections: 193 keep time, 19 are fills, 86 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

PART A
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 5
PART A
PART A
OUTRO
5 groovesFABHS12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dream No More?

196 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 No More hard to play on drums?

47 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

317 bars, about 6:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 No More?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 83, 86, 87, 91, 152, 153 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 317 BARS ANALYSED
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