Pull Me Under · Dream Theater

211 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 8:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
8:14
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-23 -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
PULL ME UNDER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 59, 65, 66 and 54 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

211 bars across 29 sections: 111 keep time, 60 are fills, 5 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-23.

PART C
PART N
PART AV
OUTRO
21 groovesADECPS+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pull Me Under?

102 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Pull Me Under hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 8:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 99 exercises over 28 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 Pull Me Under?

24 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 59, 65, 66 and 54 more.

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