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This Celluloid Dream · AFI

EXERCISE 22 OF 55
Join Part C to Part H (bars 26-28)
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Celluloid Dream on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-33, hi-hat through bars 34-44, snare through bars 45-47 and toms through bars 48-49, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x--x--|
This Celluloid Dream -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- M -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-48 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 45-75 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-80 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

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