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Dreams · Fleetwood Mac

EXERCISE 21 OF 21
Play the whole song with the record
126 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 126 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dreams on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-126.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-17 and 19-26, and 17 more places -- 76.2% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Dreams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 27, 41, 53, 61, 93, 97 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Dreams?

120 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 27, 41, 53, 61, 93, 97 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED