Bend The Clock (V2) · Dream Theater

117 bars, 6:28, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57, 59 and 79, and 4 more places -- 6.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BEND THE CLOCK (V2) · BAR 79
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 26 and 59 more.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 12 sections: 29 keep time, 65 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-25.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART J
PART O
PART H
PART AB
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AX
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAHAMJS1O+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bend The Clock (V2)?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Bend The Clock (V2) hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 6:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Bend The Clock (V2)?

22 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 26 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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