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Scene Two: I. Overture 1928 · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 25 OF 71
Groove S
42 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scene Two: I. Overture 1928 on drums

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.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-21, toms through bars 22-29, snare through bars 30-38, hi-hat through bars 39-46 and ride through bars 47-54, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
SD |x-x-x-x-----------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Scene Two: I. Overture 1928 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 12-18 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-43 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED