A Forest · The Cure

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-28, 30-48 and 50-66, and 4 more places -- 84.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 104 BPM
A FOREST · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 29, 49, 69, 73, 95, 96 and 1 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 95-97 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 3 sections: 85 keep time, 7 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-28.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Forest?

104 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 A Forest hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 A Forest?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 29, 49, 69, 73, 95, 96 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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