Dream Police · Cheap Trick

133 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-24, 27-29 and 31-32, and 5 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
DREAM POLICE · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 3, 5, 20, 21, 22, 25 and 32 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 10 sections: 79 keep time, 39 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-98.

PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesMGDXAVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dream Police?

138 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 Police hard to play on drums?

56 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Police?

13 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 3, 5, 20, 21, 22, 25 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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