Dreaming · Mac Demarco

51 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 2:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
51
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 23-26 and 44-51 -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 82 BPM
DREAMING · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

51 bars across 8 sections: 40 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dreaming?

82 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?

38 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

51 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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