Temple Of Circadia · John Petrucci

248 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 198 BPM, 6:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
248
LENGTH
6:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68, 76 and 82-84, and 1 more place -- 4.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 198 BPM
TEMPLE OF CIRCADIA · BAR 68
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 16 and 63 more.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

248 bars across 21 sections: 74 keep time, 69 are fills, 13 are stops and 71 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 156-165.

PART AH
PART BQ
CHORUS
BREAK
21 groovesS21CDAHBQBC+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Temple Of Circadia?

198 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Temple Of Circadia hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

248 bars, about 6:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 101 exercises over 28 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 Temple Of Circadia?

29 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 16 and 63 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 248 BARS ANALYSED
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