A View From the Top of the World · Dream Theater

606 bars at 213 BPM -- fast, and 14:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
213 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
606
LENGTH
14:13
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 91-93, 96 and 99-101, and 7 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 · 213 BPM
A VIEW FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD · BAR 91
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

40 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 53, 54, 55, 64, 72, 80 and 62 more.

LOOP · 213 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 213 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 213 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

37 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

606 bars across 41 sections: 284 keep time, 69 are fills, 13 are stops and 181 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-29.

PART S27
OUTRO 2
33 groovesS41S27UABF+28Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A View From the Top of the World?

213 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is A View From the Top of the World hard to play on drums?

64 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

606 bars, about 14:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 175 exercises over 53 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 View From the Top of the World?

40 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 53, 54, 55, 64, 72, 80 and 62 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 606 BARS ANALYSED
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