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Bend The Clock · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 21 OF 120
Groove T
79 / 217 BARS COVERED
0 / 120 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART M
PART Z
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AZ
CHORUS 4
PART AU
PART AZ
OUTRO
16 groovesALAZAUZA+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 33
LAND · 33
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bend The Clock on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
6:22
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-19, silence through bars 20-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-39 and ride through bars 40-45, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    82
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------------x-----|
Bend The Clock -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 86 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 -- AL, AU -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AZ -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-83 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-91 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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