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A Forgotten One · Alternative Competition 5

EXERCISE 11 OF 12
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 112-114)
116 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 4
BREAK 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBS4S2S9S10+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Forgotten One on drums

140 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, silence through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-67, silence through bars 68-79, snare through bars 80-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-103, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-24, 33-36 and 38-48, and 4 more places -- 91.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x---x-------|
HH |--------------oo|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|
A Forgotten One -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 66-113 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is A Forgotten One?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is A Forgotten One hard to play on drums?

52 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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