In My Dreams · Gary Moore

144 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 82 BPM, 5:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5-9 and 13, and 27 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 82 BPM
IN MY DREAMS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 27, 28, 42, 75, 76 and 8 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 5 sections: 121 keep time and 18 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-26.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBIEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In My Dreams?

82 BPM, in 3/4, 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 In My Dreams hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 In My Dreams?

3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 27, 28, 42, 75, 76 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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