Surrounded · Dream Theater

68 bars, 4:14, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

ProgressiveMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 67 BPM
SURROUNDED · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 18 more.

LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 67 BPM
BARS 25-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 9 sections: 29 keep time, 24 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART F
PART G
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO
9 groovesYQGBD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Surrounded?

67 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Surrounded hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 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 Surrounded?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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