Dreamcatcher · Baaa

266 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 7:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
7:09
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 136-151 -- 7.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
DREAMCATCHER · BARS 136-137
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 15, 16 and 62 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 2-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 45-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

281 bars across 22 sections: 121 keep time, 68 are fills, 3 are stops and 73 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-153.

PART H
PART T
PART AB
PART AU
CHORUS
PART CI
BREAK 6
21 groovesS22BUCITAU+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dreamcatcher?

170 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 Dreamcatcher hard to play on drums?

53 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

266 bars, about 7:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 23 sittings, about 27 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 Dreamcatcher?

12 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 15, 16 and 62 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 266 BARS ANALYSED
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