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Dreams · Van Halen

EXERCISE 6 OF 40
Fill at bar 48 (a small one)
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0 / 40 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART I
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBIS1QU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dreams on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-48, snare through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-70, snare through bars 71-79 and toms through bars 80-87, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 71-73, and 9 more places -- 37.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Dreams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 26, 34, 48, 52, 56, 70 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- I, B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 10 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 80-97 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 103-135 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dreams?

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 hard to play on drums?

51 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 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?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 26, 34, 48, 52, 56, 70 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED