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Doki Doki Forever · OR3O

EXERCISE 28 OF 45
Fill at bar 88 (a small one)
83 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART Q
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJQUDF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Doki Doki Forever on drums

121 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-28, snare through bars 29-48, silence through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-72, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-55, 58-63 and 66-72 -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    58
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x-----------|
Doki Doki Forever -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 32, 79, 80, 88, 96, 101 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- J, Q -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-33 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-40 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-84 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Doki Doki Forever?

177 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 Doki Doki Forever hard to play on drums?

58 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Doki Doki Forever?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 32, 79, 80, 88, 96, 101 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED