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Scene Two: II. Strange Déjà Vu · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 7 OF 89
Groove AB -- Part AB (a two-bar phrase)
31 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AB
PART C
PART G
PART T
PART V
PART AB
CHORUS
PART BA
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesARABGCAL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scene Two: II. Strange Déjà Vu on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 5:19 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
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-43, ride through bars 44-47, snare through bars 48-56, hi-hat through bars 57-65 and ride through bars 66-77, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78-82, 84-85 and 87, and 8 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    78
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |----x-----------x-x-x-------x---|
Scene Two: II. Strange Déjà Vu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 2, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- AR -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part AB -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Scene Two: II. Strange Déjà Vu?

111 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: II. Strange Déjà Vu hard to play on drums?

71 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?

152 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 24 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: II. Strange Déjà Vu?

20 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 2, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED