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Whisper Of A Dream · Holding Absence

EXERCISE 20 OF 76
Join Part F to Part K (bars 32-34)
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0 / 76 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART K
PART S2
PART D
PART F
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 5
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whisper Of A Dream on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, silence through bars 53-60 and snare through bars 61-85, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    61
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Whisper Of A Dream -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-53 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-85 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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