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Dreamer · Ozzy Osbourne

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove C -- Part C
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0 / 37 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO
BREAK 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFCRS3K+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dreamer on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-4, silence through bars 5-11, hi-hat through bars 12-19, ride through bars 20-27, hi-hat through bars 28-35 and ride through bars 36-43, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-17, 28-33 and 62-67 -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---o---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
Dreamer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 19, 26, 35, 43, 51 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C, F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-27 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-39 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-62 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dreamer?

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dreamer hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dreamer?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 19, 26, 35, 43, 51 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED