Romantic Dreams · Deftones

185 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 127 BPM, 5:02 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 18 and 22-23, and 9 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 127 BPM
ROMANTIC DREAMS · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 72, 116, 120, 127, 128 and 9 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 18 sections: 117 keep time, 15 are fills, 13 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-82.

PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART L
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDILMA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Romantic Dreams?

127 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 Romantic Dreams hard to play on drums?

64 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Romantic Dreams?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 72, 116, 120, 127, 128 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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