Only In Dreams · Weezer

148 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 7:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
7:35
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-32, 43-60 and 71-76, and 1 more place -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 78 BPM
ONLY IN DREAMS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 84, 86, 88, 91, 92, 132 and 9 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 91-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 15 sections: 111 keep time, 15 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-32.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART E
PART C
PART L
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDECLO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Only In Dreams?

78 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 Only In Dreams hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 7:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Only In Dreams?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 84, 86, 88, 91, 92, 132 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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