Little Dreamer · Van Halen

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-12 and 14-15, and 9 more places -- 58% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
LITTLE DREAMER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 9 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 7 sections: 51 keep time, 15 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART P
6 groovesCKPS1S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Little Dreamer?

90 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?

52 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Little Dreamer?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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