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Forced Life · Chimaira

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHFYPU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forced Life on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-47, snare through bars 48-57, hi-hat through bars 58-66, snare through bars 67-79 and toms through bars 80-85.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 39-41, and 3 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X-------X---X---X---X---X---X---|
HH |------------------------------o-|
SD |--------X---------------X-------|
BD |X-----X-X---X-----X-X-X-X-X-X---|
Forced Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 15, 28, 29, 38, 46 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 2-20 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-42 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Forced Life?

84 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 Life hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Forced Life?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 15, 28, 29, 38, 46 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED