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Dreams · Brandi Carlile

EXERCISE 5 OF 29
Groove C -- Part C
84 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
6 groovesFBCDS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dreams on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-14, toms through bars 15-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38, toms through bars 39-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-74, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-18, 37 and 39-48, and 5 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Dreams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 30, 61, 62, 84 and 122.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, F -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Bars 17-31 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 25-41 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-66 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 75-123 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dreams?

152 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 Dreams hard to play on drums?

39 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?

126 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Dreams?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 30, 61, 62, 84 and 122.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED