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Fragile Dreams · Anathema

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove C -- Part C
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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
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fragile Dreams on drums

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

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
21/100

silence through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-66, kick and crashes through bars 67-74 and snare through bars 75-174.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
Fragile Dreams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C, F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-90 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED