Dreams Never End · New Order

114 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-109, 111 and 113 -- 71.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 146 BPM
DREAMS NEVER END · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 3 sections: 107 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-113.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dreams Never End?

146 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 Never End hard to play on drums?

59 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Dreams Never End?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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