ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Future Dreams on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 120 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 74
LENGTH: 2:28
DIFFICULTY: 69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41 and snare through bars 42-43, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 10-12 and 50-52 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                                                3
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------x-----------|
HH |o-----------------------o-----x-----o-----------|------------------------------------------------|
SD |------------------x-----------x-----------------|------------------x-----------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|------------------------------------x-----------|
HF |---x--x--x--x--x-----x-----------------x-xx--x--|x-xx--x--x--x--x-----x--x-----------------------|

Future Dreams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 53.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 16-30 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part L and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part N and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
and 4 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Future Dreams?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Future Dreams hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Future Dreams?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 53.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED