This Celluloid Dream · AFI

116 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 57, and 6 more places -- 21.9% 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
THIS CELLULOID DREAM · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 20, 32, 33, 34, 35 and 26 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 32-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 15 sections: 58 keep time, 32 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

PART C
PART E
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART V
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMCHVE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Celluloid Dream?

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 This Celluloid Dream hard to play on drums?

48 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 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 This Celluloid Dream?

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 20, 32, 33, 34, 35 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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