A Nightmare To Remember (My Version) · 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.

ProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
484
LENGTH
35:42
DIFFICULTY
77/100
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 255-257, and 9 more places -- 6.1% 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 (MY VERSION) · BAR 249
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 22, 30 and 11 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 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

484 bars across 43 sections: 331 keep time, 17 are fills, 9 are stops and 61 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 248-301.

CHORUS
BREAK 3
39 groovesCMS43BPBSAP+34Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Nightmare To Remember (My Version)?

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 (My Version) hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. 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 163 exercises over 59 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 (My Version)?

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 22, 30 and 11 more.

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