Constant Motion · Dream Theater

165 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 6:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
6:45
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 42, and 3 more places -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
CONSTANT MOTION · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 5, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 and 73 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 21 sections: 53 keep time, 79 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-36.

PART K
PART AR
PART AU
PART BP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesAEUAUAJBP+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Constant Motion?

95 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 Constant Motion hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 6:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 29 sittings, about 26 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 Constant Motion?

23 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 5, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 and 73 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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