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A Fortune In Lies · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 30 OF 89
3-bar fill at bar 50
122 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART X
PART D
PART U
PART X
PART U
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesATBEDUAI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 5
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Fortune In Lies on drums

195 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-17, ride through bars 18-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-37, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 120-151 -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    120              121
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-xxx-x-xxx-x-xx|xxx-xxx-x-xxx-x-|
A Fortune In Lies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 24, 35 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- BE, AT -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-33 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part U -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part U and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part X and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Fortune In Lies?

140 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 A Fortune In Lies hard to play on drums?

56 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 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 A Fortune In Lies?

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 24, 35 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED