Sweet Dreams - Seven Nation Army Mashup · Pomplamoose

74 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 7-13 and 29-35 -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SWEET DREAMS - SEVEN NATION ARMY MASHUP · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 22, 44, 45, 46, 54 and 9 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 44-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 7 sections: 46 keep time, 15 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-13.

CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAIACGMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Dreams - Seven Nation Army Mashup?

120 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 - Seven Nation Army Mashup hard to play on drums?

50 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 - Seven Nation Army Mashup?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 22, 44, 45, 46, 54 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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