A Nightmare To Remember · Dream Theater

484 bars, 35:42, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
484
LENGTH
35:42
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 249, 251-253 and 256-257, and 9 more places -- 5.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 60 BPM
A NIGHTMARE TO REMEMBER · BAR 249
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 22, 70, 94 and 2 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

484 bars across 44 sections: 342 keep time, 8 are fills, 5 are stops and 64 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 250-297.

CHORUS
BREAK 3
39 groovesS44CFBLBGAL+34Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Nightmare To Remember?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is A Nightmare To Remember hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

484 bars, about 35:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 153 exercises over 54 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 A Nightmare To Remember?

8 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 22, 70, 94 and 2 more.

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