Fall Into The Light · Dream Theater

256 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 172 BPM, 6:35 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Progressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
256
LENGTH
6:35
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 159-176 and 179-193 -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 172 BPM
FALL INTO THE LIGHT · BAR 160
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 9, 13, 33, 50, 51, 52 and 41 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 50-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

256 bars across 20 sections: 124 keep time, 47 are fills, 16 are stops and 49 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-72.

PART C
PART R
PART S15
CHORUS
PART AC
BREAK 3
14 groovesAQCRS15V+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fall Into The Light?

172 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Fall Into The Light hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

256 bars, about 6:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 17 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fall Into The Light?

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 9, 13, 33, 50, 51, 52 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 256 BARS ANALYSED
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