Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity (5 String Bass) · Dream Theater

240 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 8:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
8:06
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 103-117 -- 6.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 106 BPM
SCENE SEVEN: I. THE DANCE OF ETERNITY (5 STRING BASS) · BAR 103
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 14, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 74 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

240 bars across 18 sections: 103 keep time, 80 are fills, 28 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-117.

PART D
CHORUS
PART BI
PART BW
PART CM
OUTRO 2
18 groovesRDBDBWBI+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity (5 String Bass)?

106 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 Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity (5 String Bass) hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 8:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 30 sittings, about 25 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 Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity (5 String Bass)?

23 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 14, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 74 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED
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