Whisper Of A Dream · Holding Absence

157 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 61-63 and 65-67, and 6 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 147 BPM
WHISPER OF A DREAM · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 28, 30, 31, 36, 68, 72 and 19 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 20 sections: 85 keep time, 25 are fills, 7 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-52.

PART S2
PART D
PART K
PART M
BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART D
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART S16
OUTRO 2
17 groovesIRDAOF+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whisper Of A Dream?

147 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 Whisper Of A Dream hard to play on drums?

54 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Whisper Of A Dream?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 28, 30, 31, 36, 68, 72 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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