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Only In Dreams · Weezer

EXERCISE 15 OF 41
Groove G
99 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Only In Dreams on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
7:35
DIFFICULTY
42/100

ride through bars 3-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-60, hi-hat through bars 61-68, ride through bars 69-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-90, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Only In Dreams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D, E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-85 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 91-114 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 113-127 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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