New Millennium · Dream Theater

304 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 8:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
304
LENGTH
8:28
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 108-114, 161-168 and 275-281 -- 7.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
NEW MILLENNIUM · BARS 108-109
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 35, 37, 39, 41, 49, 69 and 46 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 69-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

304 bars across 24 sections: 150 keep time, 57 are fills, 47 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-64.

COUNT-IN
PART T
PART A
CHORUS
PART CR
OUTRO
20 groovesBRTAAGS1+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is New Millennium?

132 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 New Millennium hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

304 bars, about 8:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 99 exercises over 30 sittings, about 26 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 New Millennium?

23 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 35, 37, 39, 41, 49, 69 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 304 BARS ANALYSED
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