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In The Arms Of Morpheus · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 33 OF 55
Groove W
65 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
BREAK
PART S4
PART P
CHORUS
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesUS4AKPAD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In The Arms Of Morpheus on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, silence through bars 10-18, snare through bars 19-22, toms through bars 23-29 and snare through bars 30-36, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46, 48 and 50, and 7 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x-------x---x---x-------x-------x---x---|
In The Arms Of Morpheus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- U -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part P -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part S4 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-46 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In The Arms Of Morpheus?

120 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 In The Arms Of Morpheus hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 In The Arms Of Morpheus?

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED