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Bend The Clock (V2) · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 15 OF 78
5-bar fill at bar 14
27 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bend The Clock (V2) on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-11, ride through bars 12-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-30, ride through bars 31-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    79
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--------------------x--x-----x--------------x--|
Bend The Clock (V2) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AX -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-95 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-41 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 25-45 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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