Maladaptive Dreaming · Blooming Mechanica

87 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 115 BPM, 2:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-16 -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
MALADAPTIVE DREAMING · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 17, 20, 21, 29, 32 and 5 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 7 sections: 63 keep time, 11 are fills, 7 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

PART B
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEBOQL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Maladaptive Dreaming?

115 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Maladaptive Dreaming hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Maladaptive Dreaming?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 17, 20, 21, 29, 32 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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