Dreamwalker · Silent Planet

169 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-46 and 49-51, and 8 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 184 BPM
DREAMWALKER · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 36 and 29 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 28-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 17 sections: 68 keep time, 35 are fills, 30 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-72.

PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART V
PART S11
CHORUS 2
PART S15
OUTRO
16 groovesQS11AUVS15+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dreamwalker?

184 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 Dreamwalker hard to play on drums?

47 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Dreamwalker?

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 36 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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