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Deaf Forever · Motörhead

EXERCISE 8 OF 33
Groove D (a two-bar phrase)
96 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesAFIOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deaf Forever on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-134, snare through bars 135-136 and kick and crashes through bars 137-142.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 9-30 and 33-35, and 10 more places -- 62.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Deaf Forever -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 36, 66, 70 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 39-134 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 73-90 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Deaf Forever?

130 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 Deaf Forever hard to play on drums?

59 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Deaf Forever?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 36, 66, 70 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED