Innocence Faded · Dream Theater

165 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 5:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-26 and 28-31 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 113 BPM
INNOCENCE FADED · BARS 12-13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 10, 11, 39 and 30 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 13 sections: 108 keep time, 36 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-34.

CHORUS
PART H
PART L
PART R
PART V
PART AG
CHORUS 2
PART AX
PART BL
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCHVAXL+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Innocence Faded?

113 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 Innocence Faded hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 20 sittings, about 28 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 Innocence Faded?

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 10, 11, 39 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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