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Take Away My Pain · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 8 OF 38
Groove I
81 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take Away My Pain on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
69/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-33, toms through bars 34-45 and ride through bars 46-47, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--xxx-x-x-----xxx-x-x-----xxx-x-|
T1 |----------x---------------------|
T2 |------------x---------x---------|
FT |x-----------------------x-------|
BD |----x-----------x---------------|
HF |----x-----------x---------------|
Take Away My Pain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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