Space-Dye Vest · Dream Theater

150 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-14 and 16-18, and 13 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SPACE-DYE VEST · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 92, 109, 110, 112, 113, 114 and 10 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 109-110 · LANDS ON BAR 111 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 112-114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 9 sections: 99 keep time, 16 are fills, 10 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-66.

CHORUS
PART F
BREAK
PART I
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDIQS4F+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Space-Dye Vest?

100 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 Space-Dye Vest hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 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 Space-Dye Vest?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 92, 109, 110, 112, 113, 114 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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