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Infinite Dreams · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 9 OF 97
Run C1 · Part C (bars 1-9)
36 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 97 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Infinite Dreams on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
11:31
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-70, snare through bars 71-72, ride through bars 73-103, hi-hat through bars 104-119 and ride through bars 120-126, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---g---x---g---x---g---x---x-g-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------------------x-----------|
Infinite Dreams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- H, AR -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 10-43 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part X -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part X and Part AC -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part X and Part AC -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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