Dying To Forget · Poppy

130 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6 and 11, and 8 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 148 BPM
DYING TO FORGET · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 10, 14, 22, 24, 26 and 9 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 14 sections: 77 keep time, 15 are fills, 14 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 116-130.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART R
PART AF
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBAOPYAF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dying To Forget?

148 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 Dying To Forget hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Dying To Forget?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 10, 14, 22, 24, 26 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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