Trial Of Tears · Dream Theater

351 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 12:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
351
LENGTH
12:28
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 222-228 and 230-243 -- 7.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
TRIAL OF TEARS · BAR 223
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 9, 14, 27, 36, 52, 68 and 58 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

351 bars across 43 sections: 174 keep time, 64 are fills, 16 are stops and 54 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 223-243.

CHORUS
PART S37
36 groovesCYBJS37SN+31Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Trial Of Tears?

116 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 Trial Of Tears hard to play on drums?

63 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

351 bars, about 12:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 154 exercises over 48 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 Trial Of Tears?

30 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 9, 14, 27, 36, 52, 68 and 58 more.

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