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Romantic Dreams · Deftones

EXERCISE 3 OF 62
Fill at bar 32 (a small one)
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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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Romantic Dreams on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-80 and ride through bars 81-96, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......
RD |x---g---x---x-------g---|
SD |----------------x-------|
BD |x-------x---x-------x---|
Romantic Dreams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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