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Dreaming · Gabriel Alexi

Dreaming · Gabriel Alexi
EXERCISE 24 OF 38
Join Chorus 2 to Part D (bars 62-64)
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CHORUS
PART D
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAGDQN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dreaming on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64, ride through bars 65-92 and snare through bars 93-108.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23 and 25-40 -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|--------x-------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x--x----x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Dreaming -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 52, 56 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-17 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-68 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-73 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dreaming?

125 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 Dreaming hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Dreaming?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 52, 56 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED