Dreams Of Shadows · Jorge Arab

104 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 18 more places -- 51% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
DREAMS OF SHADOWS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 19 and 25 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 7 sections: 61 keep time, 31 are fills, 7 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-89.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDSJS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dreams Of Shadows?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dreams Of Shadows hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dreams Of Shadows?

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 19 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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