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Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) · Eurythmics

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 12 PASSED · 85 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) on drums

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

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
21/100

toms through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64 and snare through bars 65-111.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
FT |X---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 25-41 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED