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Forced Entry · Leprous

EXERCISE 19 OF 113
Groove M -- Part M (a two-bar phrase)
110 / 280 BARS COVERED
0 / 113 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART E
PART M
OUTRO 2
20 groovesBVXSTE+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 7
JOIN · 19
LINK · 9
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forced Entry on drums

280 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 10:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
280
LENGTH
10:19
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-26, toms through bars 27-35, hi-hat through bars 36-45 and snare through bars 46-53, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 226-247, 250-252 and 254-264 -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    229
    1.......2.......3.......4...
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x---|
BD |x---x-x---------x-----x-----|
Forced Entry -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 33, 34, 35, 37 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 93 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 -- BV -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Forced Entry?

95 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 Forced Entry hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

280 bars, about 10:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 93 exercises over 29 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 Forced Entry?

19 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 33, 34, 35, 37 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 280 BARS ANALYSED