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Dream No More · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART B
CHORUS 5
PART A
CHORUS 6
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFABHS12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dream No More on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
317
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-27, snare through bars 28-31, hi-hat through bars 32-79, snare through bars 80-97, hi-hat through bars 98-113 and snare through bars 114-117, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Dream No More -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-88 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-45 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 79-249 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 97-154 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 160-248 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 245-311 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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