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Dreamer Deceiver · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 7 OF 16
Run D1 · Outro (bars 5-13)
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0 / 16 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesHDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dreamer Deceiver on drums

66 bars, 5:38, at 47 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
47 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-66.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 3 more places -- 69.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
HH |--x-x-x---x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x---xx--x---x|
Dreamer Deceiver -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28 and 36.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dreamer Deceiver?

47 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Dreamer Deceiver hard to play on drums?

54 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 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 Dreamer Deceiver?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28 and 36.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED