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S2N · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 18 OF 117
Groove M
68 / 231 BARS COVERED
0 / 117 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART E
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
14 groovesOSCAEJ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 2
JOIN · 18
LINK · 11
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play S2N on drums

231 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 6:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
231
LENGTH
6:02
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-59, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-38 and 103-105, and 7 more places -- 9.7% 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
RD |xx-xxxxxx-x-x-xx|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x-------xx|
S2N -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

27 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 24, 32 and 74 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 89 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 -- O -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 37-54 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is S2N?

138 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 S2N hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

231 bars, about 6:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 89 exercises over 27 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 S2N?

27 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 24, 32 and 74 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 231 BARS ANALYSED