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

EXERCISE 1 OF 107
Groove BS -- Part BS
0 / 242 BARS COVERED
0 / 107 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART BS, PART CA, PART CD
CHORUS
PART BS
PART BS
PART CA
PART CD
BREAK 4
21 groovesS23AIBSBXCD+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 5
JOIN · 20
LINK · 8
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In the Presence Of Enemies, Pt. 1 on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
7:24
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 1-5, silence through bars 6-11, toms through bars 12-17, hi-hat through bars 18-49, snare through bars 50-69 and toms through bars 70-81, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    136
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x---x-------x---x-|
In the Presence Of Enemies, Pt. 1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 15, 16 and 58 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 -- BS, BX -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-18 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-26 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and Part R -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part R and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part X and Part AD -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part AD and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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