Light Fuse And Get Away · Dream Theater

215 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 6:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
6:13
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 108-111 and 142-146 -- 4.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
LIGHT FUSE AND GET AWAY · BAR 109
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 6, 7, 16, 17, 31, 35 and 40 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 35-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

215 bars across 22 sections: 109 keep time, 46 are fills, 16 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 188-197.

PART B
PART K
PART AJ
PART AQ
PART AN
PART BG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
21 groovesCBKS22AJB+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Light Fuse And Get Away?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Light Fuse And Get Away hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 6:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 99 exercises over 37 sittings, about 25 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 Light Fuse And Get Away?

24 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 6, 7, 16, 17, 31, 35 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED
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