Under a Glass Moon · Dream Theater

252 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 7:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
252
LENGTH
7:00
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 193-195, 197-203 and 205-211 -- 7.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
UNDER A GLASS MOON · BAR 194
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 and 73 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 38-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 46-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

252 bars across 26 sections: 120 keep time, 79 are fills, 6 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-32.

COUNT-IN
PART I
PART W
PART AW
PART AK
PART CH
OUTRO
22 groovesRWAKCHS1+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Under a Glass Moon?

146 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 Under a Glass Moon hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

252 bars, about 7:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 106 exercises over 33 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 Under a Glass Moon?

28 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 and 73 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 252 BARS ANALYSED
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