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Scene Three: II. Fatal Tragedy · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 1 OF 118
Groove BH -- Chorus
0 / 239 BARS COVERED
0 / 118 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART BG, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART E
PART N
PART AQ
PART AX
CHORUS
PART BG
CHORUS 2
27 groovesBHBGENS1+22Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 24
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 6
JOIN · 21
LINK · 7
SECTION · 19
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scene Three: II. Fatal Tragedy on drums

239 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 8:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
8:40
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-31, ride through bars 32-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42 and ride through bars 43-54, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 167-169, 174-175 and 179-180, and 5 more places -- 8.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    168
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx----xx-xx-----|
Scene Three: II. Fatal Tragedy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 20, 31, 42, 50, 54, 80 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 97 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 -- BH, BG -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-72 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-77 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part S11 and Part AB -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Scene Three: II. Fatal Tragedy?

108 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 Three: II. Fatal Tragedy hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 8:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 97 exercises over 26 sittings, about 28 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 Three: II. Fatal Tragedy?

20 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 20, 31, 42, 50, 54, 80 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED