Bend The Clock · Dream Theater

217 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 6:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
6:22
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82, 106 and 114-116, and 15 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BEND THE CLOCK · BAR 82
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

33 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 72, 81, 83, 85, 86, 89 and 49 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 85-86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

29 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 26 sections: 95 keep time, 55 are fills, 35 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-53.

PART M
PART Z
CHORUS
PART AZ
CHORUS 4
PART AU
PART AZ
OUTRO
16 groovesALAZAUZA+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bend The Clock?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Bend The Clock hard to play on drums?

56 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 6:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 23 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bend The Clock?

33 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 72, 81, 83, 85, 86, 89 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED
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