You Make My Dreams · Daryl Hall & John Oates

128 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 3:04 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-22, 30-36 and 58-64, and 5 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 167 BPM
YOU MAKE MY DREAMS · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 9 sections: 116 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-128.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Make My Dreams?

167 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is You Make My Dreams hard to play on drums?

42 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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