Close Forever · Alternative Competition 6

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-9 and 11, and 22 more places -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
CLOSE FOREVER · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 8 sections: 102 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-107.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S5
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAES5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Close Forever?

95 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 Close Forever hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Close Forever?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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