The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun · Dream Theater

218 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 6:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-54, 57-61 and 90-95, and 5 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
THE ONES WHO HELP TO SET THE SUN · BARS 49-50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 8, 10, 20, 22, 34, 46 and 60 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

218 bars across 17 sections: 113 keep time, 66 are fills, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-33.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART AL
PART AW
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesMAFFCAL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Ones Who Help to Set the Sun hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 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 Ones Who Help to Set the Sun?

27 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 8, 10, 20, 22, 34, 46 and 60 more.

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