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The Perfect Dream · Sun Guts

EXERCISE 20 OF 60
Join Part G to Part L (bars 35-37)
59 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART L
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Perfect Dream on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-27, snare through bars 28-30, ride through bars 31-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-47, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
BD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
The Perfect Dream -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- B, J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-44 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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