The Perfect Dream · Sun Guts

138 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 19 and 118-124, and 1 more place -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 137 BPM
THE PERFECT DREAM · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 25, 30, 35, 40, 46 and 11 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 16 sections: 69 keep time, 17 are fills, 17 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

CHORUS
PART D
PART G
PART L
PART J
PART T
PART AA
BREAK
PART AQ
OUTRO
13 groovesBAAAQGS13+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Perfect Dream?

137 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Perfect Dream hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 Perfect Dream?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 25, 30, 35, 40, 46 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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