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Sweet Dreams. · Marilyn Manson

EXERCISE 24 OF 34
Run H1 · Part H (bars 42-50)
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0 / 34 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweet Dreams. on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-35, hi-hat through bars 36-41, toms through bars 42-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-84.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
FT |X-x-x-x-X-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Sweet Dreams. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D, E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-39 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-65 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sweet Dreams.?

90 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. 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 3:44 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.?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED