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Fatal Tragedy · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 31 OF 115
Run M1 · Part M (bars 56-74)
108 / 232 BARS COVERED
0 / 115 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
COUNT-IN
PART E
PART C
PART M
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART BK
24 groovesBAEAZMS1+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 6
JOIN · 21
LINK · 8
SECTION · 18
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fatal Tragedy on drums

232 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 8:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
8:36
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-31, ride through bars 32-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-42, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 85-99 -- 7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    85               86
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xxx-x-----xxx-x-|----xxx-xxx-xxx-|
Fatal Tragedy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 31, 42, 50, 80, 81, 82 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 95 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 -- X -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BA -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AZ -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-47 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-85 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fatal Tragedy?

107 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Fatal Tragedy hard to play on drums?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 8:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 95 exercises over 26 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 Fatal Tragedy?

19 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 31, 42, 50, 80, 81, 82 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED