Little Dreamer · Ensiferum

178 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 7 and 9-11, and 9 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
LITTLE DREAMER · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 31, 32 and 35 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 19 sections: 105 keep time, 41 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-85.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART U
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART AH
OUTRO 2
9 groovesANKFU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Little Dreamer?

150 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Little Dreamer hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Little Dreamer?

21 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 31, 32 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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