Dreamworld · Midnight Oil

140 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-14, 27-42 and 55-66, and 1 more place -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
DREAMWORLD · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 18 sections: 99 keep time and 24 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-42.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART C
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
8 groovesBDCHG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dreamworld?

158 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 Dreamworld hard to play on drums?

50 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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