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Scene Seven: II. One Last Time · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 31 OF 71
Groove W -- Part W
58 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scene Seven: II. One Last Time on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
71/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, ride through bars 49-56 and snare through bars 57-64, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------g-----|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
Scene Seven: II. One Last Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- A, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-40 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-86 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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