Another Won · Dream Theater

232 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 29 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
ANOTHER WON · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 50 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 3-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

232 bars across 17 sections: 105 keep time, 57 are fills and 50 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-39.

PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AO
PART BE
OUTRO
14 groovesOBEAOGAA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Another Won?

160 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 Another Won hard to play on drums?

61 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 89 exercises over 26 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Another Won?

30 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED
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