Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity · Dream Theater

234 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 7:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
7:53
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 97-111 -- 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 · BAR 97
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 82 times: bars 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 76 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

234 bars across 17 sections: 102 keep time, 82 are fills, 28 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-111.

PART B
CHORUS
PART AS
PART BH
PART BV
PART CL
OUTRO 2
17 groovesPDABBVBH+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity?

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 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?

234 bars, about 7:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 28 sittings, about 26 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?

23 fills to learn, played 82 times: bars 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 76 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED
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