Infinite Dreams · Iron Maiden

170 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 74 BPM, 11:31 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
11:31
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 18-21 and 23-24 -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
INFINITE DREAMS · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 32, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44 and 29 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 39-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 16 sections: 78 keep time, 35 are fills, 3 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-24.

PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART AM
PART AT
PART BH
PART AT
BREAK
14 groovesS16HATAMBK+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Infinite Dreams?

74 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Infinite Dreams hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 11:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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 Infinite Dreams?

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 32, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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