The Shadow Man Incident · Dream Theater

583 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 16:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
583
LENGTH
16:52
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 35 more places -- 7.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
THE SHADOW MAN INCIDENT · BAR 21
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

55 fills to learn, played 112 times: bars 36, 45, 46, 72, 76, 82 and 106 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

51 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

583 bars across 53 sections: 343 keep time, 112 are fills, 34 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-71.

PART O
PART W
36 groovesCEWOEI+31Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Shadow Man Incident?

138 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 Shadow Man Incident hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

583 bars, about 16:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 216 exercises over 68 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 Shadow Man Incident?

55 fills to learn, played 112 times: bars 36, 45, 46, 72, 76, 82 and 106 more.

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