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Dreamwalker · Silent Planet

Dreamwalker · Silent Planet
EXERCISE 12 OF 72
Groove G
55 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dreamwalker on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-55, toms through bars 56-72 and silence through bars 73-76, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---g---x---g---|
SD |--------x-----gg|
BD |x-----x---------|
Dreamwalker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- Q, V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-120 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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