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Living In A Dream · Arc Angels

Living In A Dream · Arc Angels
EXERCISE 17 OF 55
Join Chorus 2 to Part L (bars 29-31)
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0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART L
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Living In A Dream on drums

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

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-95.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------xx------|
Living In A Dream -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-16 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-33 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-36 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part L and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-78 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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