In My Dreams · Dokken

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

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

134

LENGTH

4:28

DIFFICULTY

58/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-30, ride through bars 31-39, hi-hat through bars 40-59, ride through bars 60-83 and silence through bars 84-87, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-36, 60-65 and 68-73, and 9 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 14, 22, 51, 57, 67, 75 and 2 more.

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- G, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Bars 51-68 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
8. Bars 82-99 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.