Living In A Dream · Arc Angels

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 9 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
LIVING IN A DREAM · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 9, 21, 25, 34, 36 and 22 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 13 sections: 49 keep time, 28 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-53.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART C
PART P
PART S10
PART Q
OUTRO
8 groovesBCPQS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Living In A Dream?

80 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 Living In A Dream hard to play on drums?

48 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Living In A Dream?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 9, 21, 25, 34, 36 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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