The Long Exposure Of Your Mid-Dream · %%%descent

174 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 87-90, 95-98 and 103-105, and 3 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
THE LONG EXPOSURE OF YOUR MID-DREAM · BAR 87
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 34, 35, 40 and 43 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 22 sections: 83 keep time, 49 are fills, 10 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-121.

PART A
PART E
BREAK
PART K
PART F
PART X
PART A
PART I
12 groovesAFAXEAG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Long Exposure Of Your Mid-Dream?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Long Exposure Of Your Mid-Dream hard to play on drums?

56 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 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 The Long Exposure Of Your Mid-Dream?

19 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 34, 35, 40 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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