Answering the Call · Dream Theater

265 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 7:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
265
LENGTH
7:25
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 21 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
ANSWERING THE CALL · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 124 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 118 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

28 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

265 bars across 13 sections: 75 keep time, 124 are fills, 16 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 254-265.

PART D
PART O
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART AS
CHORUS 3
PART BS
PART BS
OUTRO
10 groovesLCLS4BSAS+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Answering the Call?

142 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 Answering the Call 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

265 bars, about 7:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 23 sittings, about 27 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 Answering the Call?

30 fills to learn, played 124 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 118 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 265 BARS ANALYSED
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