Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) · Marilyn Manson

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalElectronic90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-27 -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 91 BPM
SWEET DREAMS (ARE MADE OF THIS) · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 35, 49, 73, 81 and 83.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 10 sections: 65 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-27.

PART C
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART H
PART C
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGDECH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

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

91 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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)?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 35, 49, 73, 81 and 83.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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