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Force Your Way · The Black Mages

EXERCISE 3 OF 67
3-bar fill at bar 59
33 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesASHEAS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Force Your Way on drums

156 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-61, ride through bars 62-93, snare through bars 94-95 and toms through bars 96-99, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 14 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Force Your Way -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 16, 31, 32, 41, 49, 57 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- H, S -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 17-146 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-42 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part S -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Force Your Way?

165 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 Force Your Way hard to play on drums?

52 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Force Your Way?

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 16, 31, 32, 41, 49, 57 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED