Dream to Make Believe · Armor For Sleep

91 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 163 BPM, 2:57 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-34 and 52-58, and 1 more place -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 163 BPM
DREAM TO MAKE BELIEVE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 59.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 8 sections: 58 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-10.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDS8BCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dream to Make Believe?

163 BPM, in 6/4, 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 to Make Believe hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Dream to Make Believe?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 59.

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