These Dreams · Heart

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 22-23 and 37-43, and 5 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 79 BPM
THESE DREAMS · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 18, 36, 46, 50, 51 and 60.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 79 BPM
BARS 50-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 8 sections: 58 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-75.

PART A
PART D
PART G
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFADGS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is These Dreams?

79 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 These Dreams 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in These Dreams?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 18, 36, 46, 50, 51 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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