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Secret Dreams · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove D -- Part D
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PART D
PART F
PART G
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesIGDAF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Secret Dreams on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-52, hi-hat through bars 53-72 and ride through bars 73-121, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-15 and 38-39, and 15 more places -- 33.8% 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-------|
Secret Dreams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 52, 80, 84 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-37 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-68 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 86-144 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Secret Dreams?

130 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 Secret Dreams hard to play on drums?

49 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Secret Dreams?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 52, 80, 84 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED