Winter Dreams · Accept

139 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-22, 25-26 and 29-30, and 14 more places -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WINTER DREAMS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 23, 38, 39, 47, 52, 61 and 13 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 6 sections: 111 keep time, 19 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-22.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Winter Dreams?

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 Winter Dreams hard to play on drums?

50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Winter Dreams?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 23, 38, 39, 47, 52, 61 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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