The Dance of Eternity
Dream Theater · 1999
Notorious for over a hundred time-signature changes in a single instrumental.
- Artist
- Dream Theater
- Year
- 1999
- Genre
- progressive metal
- Drummer
- Mike Portnoy
- Tempo
- 130 bpm
- Time
- 7/8
- Feel
- straight
- Difficulty
- advanced
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
78bpm
Building
104bpm
Target
130bpm
The feel
A straight in 7/8 around 130 BPM. It moves — stay relaxed in the hands so you don't tense up and rush.
What to watch
- •Advanced: isolate the single hardest bar and loop it slowly before ever playing along.
How to learn it
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