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Dream On · Aerosmith

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove D -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBS1JS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dream On on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-22, toms through bars 23-24, ride through bars 25-29, silence through bars 30-32 and ride through bars 33-44, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-28, 41-44 and 54-57, and 4 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
RD |--g-g-g---g-g-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Dream On -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 23, 24, 40, 62, 63, 66 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 39-64 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dream On?

78 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 On hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 On?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 23, 24, 40, 62, 63, 66 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED