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Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries On · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 1 OF 66
Groove C -- Part C
0 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
PART T
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesFCOMA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries On on drums

114 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 63 BPM, 5:26 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-36, snare through bars 37-42, ride through bars 43-66 and toms through bars 67-70, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-23 and 25-27 -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1...........2...........3...........
HH |x---x-x-----x-----x---x-x-----x-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------|
BD |x---------x-----x-----------x-----x-|
Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries On -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 36, 40, 42, 52, 59 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, O -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-76 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries On?

63 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries On hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 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 Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries On?

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 36, 40, 42, 52, 59 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED