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Before I Forget · Slipknot

EXERCISE 3 OF 61
Groove F -- Part F
31 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO 2
PART F
PART K
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPFKABN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Before I Forget on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-34, ride through bars 35-41 and snare through bars 42-54, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 27-29, and 3 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x--------------x--------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--------------------x--x--------------|
Before I Forget -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 54, 58, 84, 132, 140 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Before I Forget?

126 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 Before I Forget hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Before I Forget?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 54, 58, 84, 132, 140 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED