Elephants Never Forget · Not Haken

238 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 118 BPM, 11:23 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
11:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51, 53 and 55, and 2 more places -- 6.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET · BAR 114
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 12, 35, 39 and 62 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

238 bars across 17 sections: 71 keep time, 68 are fills, 13 are stops and 70 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-121.

PART AE
PART AX
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
14 groovesS17AABXAEAX+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Elephants Never Forget?

118 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Elephants Never Forget hard to play on drums?

56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 11:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 Elephants Never Forget?

21 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 12, 35, 39 and 62 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED
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