The Dark Eternal Night · Dream Theater

268 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 9:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
268
LENGTH
9:36
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 7 more places -- 5.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 106 BPM
THE DARK ETERNAL NIGHT · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

32 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 22, 24, 29 and 50 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

28 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

268 bars across 27 sections: 151 keep time, 57 are fills, 17 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-49.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART AJ
PART AJ
PART BR
PART CB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
21 groovesCUAJCJCM+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Dark Eternal Night?

106 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 The Dark Eternal Night hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

268 bars, about 9:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 113 exercises over 40 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 The Dark Eternal Night?

32 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 22, 24, 29 and 50 more.

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