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Pull Me Under · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 17 OF 124
Groove J -- Part J
58 / 211 BARS COVERED
0 / 124 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART K
PART C
PART J
PART N
PART AV
PART K
OUTRO
21 groovesADECPS+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 4
JOIN · 23
LINK · 12
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pull Me Under on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
8:14
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-96, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |------x---------|
T1 |--------XXX-----|
T2 |------------X-XX|
FT |X--XX-----------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Pull Me Under -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 99 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 43-186 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED