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I Dreamed I Died · DevilDriver

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove M -- Part M
0 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART C
PART G
PART M
PART P
PART L
PART M
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
9 groovesVGMLP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Dreamed I Died on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-17, toms through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-33 and ride through bars 34-37, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 50-52, and 1 more place -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x--xx-xxx-x--x--|
I Dreamed I Died -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 10, 11, 13, 25, 29, 33 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 7-65 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Dreamed I Died?

127 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 I Dreamed I Died hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in I Dreamed I Died?

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 10, 11, 13, 25, 29, 33 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED