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My Eternal Dream · Stratovarius

EXERCISE 6 OF 103
2-bar fill at bar 7
109 / 238 BARS COVERED
0 / 103 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
PART M
PART M
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART AA
PART S
CHORUS 5
12 groovesISMFAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 10
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Eternal Dream on drums

238 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 5:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
5:54
DIFFICULTY
81/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-58, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59-65, 117-123 and 125-131, and 5 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    59
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
My Eternal Dream -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 16, 24 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- S -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-51 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Eternal Dream?

161 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is My Eternal Dream hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 5:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 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 My Eternal Dream?

26 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 16, 24 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED