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Forbidden City · Marty Friedman

EXERCISE 13 OF 102
2-bar fill at bar 15
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0 / 102 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART I
CHORUS
PART Y
PART AF
PART AT
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesRIBWATBL+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 17
LINK · 12
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forbidden City on drums

247 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 9:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
9:58
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-7, toms through bars 8-42, snare through bars 43-89, kick and crashes through bars 90-93 and ride through bars 94-111, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-87 -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
SD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
BD |--------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|
HF |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
Forbidden City -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15 and 51 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 82 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 -- R -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AT -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-15 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part I -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Forbidden City?

89 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 Forbidden City hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

247 bars, about 9:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 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 Forbidden City?

19 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 247 BARS ANALYSED