A Rite Of Passage · Dream Theater

246 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 10:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
246
LENGTH
10:10
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13 and 15, and 28 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
A RITE OF PASSAGE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 21 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

246 bars across 19 sections: 152 keep time, 27 are fills, 37 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 156-175.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART AA
PART AA
PART M
10 groovesEMAAAEJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Rite Of Passage?

100 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 Rite Of Passage hard to play on drums?

57 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

246 bars, about 10:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Rite Of Passage?

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 246 BARS ANALYSED
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