Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (Kycaka version for beginners) · Marilyn Manson

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-30 and 61-68 -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 92 BPM
SWEET DREAMS (ARE MADE OF THIS) (KYCAKA VERSION FOR BEGINNERS) · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 38, 52, 76 and 87.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 11 sections: 68 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-30.

PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART I
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEHFCI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (Kycaka version for beginners)?

92 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) (Kycaka version for beginners) hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (Kycaka version for beginners)?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 38, 52, 76 and 87.

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