Scene Seven: II. One Last Time · Dream Theater

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 5 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 108 BPM
SCENE SEVEN: II. ONE LAST TIME · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 46, 48, 50 and 19 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 10 sections: 51 keep time, 25 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-28.

PART A
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART W
PART AC
PART AK
OUTRO
9 groovesNAACFJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scene Seven: II. One Last Time?

108 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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: II. One Last Time hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 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: II. One Last Time?

18 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 46, 48, 50 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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