Scene Two: I. Overture 1928 · Dream Theater

105 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-11 -- 7.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
SCENE TWO: I. OVERTURE 1928 · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 13, 21, 25, 29, 30 and 23 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 14 sections: 58 keep time, 29 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-50.

PART B
CHORUS
PART Q
PART X
PART AB
PART AF
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesHQXBAF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scene Two: I. Overture 1928?

116 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 Two: I. Overture 1928 hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 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 Two: I. Overture 1928?

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 13, 21, 25, 29, 30 and 23 more.

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