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A Rite Of Passage · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 14 OF 69
Groove H
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CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART AA
PART AA
PART M
OUTRO
10 groovesEMAAAEJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Rite Of Passage on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
246
LENGTH
10:10
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, ride through bars 41-47, hi-hat through bars 48-95 and ride through bars 96-103, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
A Rite Of Passage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- E, M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 41-96 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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