Shattered Dreams · Johnny Hates Jazz

105 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Pop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 26-44 and 46-105 -- 94.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 122 BPM
SHATTERED DREAMS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 21 and 45.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 3 sections: 101 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-105.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shattered Dreams?

122 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 Shattered Dreams hard to play on drums?

47 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?

105 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Shattered Dreams?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 21 and 45.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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