Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) · Eurythmics

111 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
21/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 27-34 and 49-64, and 1 more place -- 76.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 131 BPM
SWEET DREAMS (ARE MADE OF THIS) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 8 sections: 104 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-111.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)?

131 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 Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) hard to play on drums?

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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