Take Away My Pain · Dream Theater

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 5:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 34-45 and 77-90, and 1 more place -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 79 BPM
TAKE AWAY MY PAIN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 68, 69, 76, 91, 92, 99 and 4 more.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BARS 68-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 79 BPM
BARS 91-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BARS 99-100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 7 sections: 95 keep time, 10 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-50.

CHORUS
PART H
PART Q
PART T
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBHQTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Away My Pain?

79 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 Take Away My Pain hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 15 sittings, about 21 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 Take Away My Pain?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 68, 69, 76, 91, 92, 99 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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