Fragile Dreams · Anathema

174 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
21/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-37, 39-45 and 47-49, and 17 more places -- 54.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 134 BPM
FRAGILE DREAMS · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 9 sections: 59 keep time, 92 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-30.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART C
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDCFBS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fragile Dreams?

134 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 Fragile Dreams hard to play on drums?

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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