Like Dreaming Of Stars · Burning Leaves

174 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 26-28, and 21 more places -- 45% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
LIKE DREAMING OF STARS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 25, 29 and 39 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 12 sections: 100 keep time, 45 are fills, 8 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART T
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBLTGS11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Like Dreaming Of Stars?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Like Dreaming Of Stars hard to play on drums?

53 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Like Dreaming Of Stars?

10 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 25, 29 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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