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Erotomania · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 9 OF 103
Groove G
40 / 181 BARS COVERED
0 / 103 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AX
PART T
PART BQ
BREAK
19 groovesFTAXBQY+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 20
LINK · 10
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Erotomania on drums

181 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
82/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44, ride through bars 45-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-58, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 19 and 33-35, and 3 more places -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......
CC |x---------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-------x---x-----------x---x-------x---|
Erotomania -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 18, 24, 32, 38, 44, 57 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- F, X -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-32 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-19 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Erotomania?

152 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 Erotomania hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 29 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 Erotomania?

17 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 18, 24, 32, 38, 44, 57 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED