In the Presence Of Enemies, Pt. 1 · Dream Theater

242 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 179 BPM, 7:24 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
7:24
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 134, 136 and 138, and 7 more places -- 7.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 179 BPM
IN THE PRESENCE OF ENEMIES, PT. 1 · BAR 136
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 15, 16 and 58 more.

LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

242 bars across 23 sections: 72 keep time, 64 are fills, 10 are stops and 73 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 145-150.

CHORUS
BREAK 4
21 groovesS23AIBSBXCD+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In the Presence Of Enemies, Pt. 1?

179 BPM, in 6/4, 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 In the Presence Of Enemies, Pt. 1 hard to play on drums?

59 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

242 bars, about 7:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 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 In the Presence Of Enemies, Pt. 1?

21 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 15, 16 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 242 BARS ANALYSED
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