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EXERCISE 13 OF 53
Run I1 · Part I (bars 13-17)
73 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
PART I
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dying To Forget on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 2-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-26, hi-hat through bars 27-36 and snare through bars 37-46, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO, Y -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-107 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 22-57 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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