Scene Four: Beyond This Life · Dream Theater

338 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 175 BPM, 8:06 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
338
LENGTH
8:06
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-52, 77 and 81-83, and 2 more places -- 5.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
SCENE FOUR: BEYOND THIS LIFE · BAR 49
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

32 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 12, 20, 43, 44, 45, 46 and 89 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 43-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 69-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

28 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

338 bars across 33 sections: 176 keep time, 95 are fills, 3 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-103.

CHORUS 2
PART AK
PART AF
PART AW
PART AQ
BREAK
29 groovesOAFAQS33AK+24Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scene Four: Beyond This Life?

175 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Scene Four: Beyond This Life hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

338 bars, about 8:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 130 exercises over 40 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 Four: Beyond This Life?

32 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 12, 20, 43, 44, 45, 46 and 89 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 338 BARS ANALYSED
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