Walking On a Dream · Empire Of The Sun

96 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

ElectronicPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-48, 57-72 and 81-91, and 1 more place -- 65.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
WALKING ON A DREAM · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 8 sections: 87 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-48.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walking On a Dream?

128 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 Walking On a Dream hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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