Trapped In The Wake Of A Dream · Mudvayne

132 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 75 more.

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 15 sections: 32 keep time, 81 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-25.

PART N
PART Q
CHORUS
PART Q
PART N
PART S7
PART AN
PART AS
OUTRO 2
10 groovesUNQASS7+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Trapped In The Wake Of A Dream?

91 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 Trapped In The Wake Of A 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 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 Trapped In The Wake Of A Dream?

18 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 75 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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