Enigma Machine · Dream Theater

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 5:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19 and 28 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 11 sections: 63 keep time, 34 are fills, 14 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-107.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART M
CHORUS
PART AQ
PART AY
PART BG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesABMBGS2AQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Enigma Machine?

92 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 Enigma Machine hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 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 Enigma Machine?

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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