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Like Dreaming Of Stars · Burning Leaves

Like Dreaming Of Stars · Burning Leaves
EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Like Dreaming Of Stars on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-10, silence through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-51, snare through bars 52-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-101, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |X-X---X---X---X-|
Like Dreaming Of Stars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-68 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-125 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part T and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 124-158 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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