Forest in the Selenium · Pli

147 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 6:01 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
6:01
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-18, 21-22 and 25-26, and 1 more place -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
FOREST IN THE SELENIUM · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 24, 31, 32, 44, 54, 55 and 23 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 58-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 12 sections: 32 keep time, 29 are fills, 6 are stops and 66 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-23.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART J
PART Q
PART AA
PART S8
OUTRO 2
10 groovesS12BS1AAS8+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forest in the Selenium?

150 BPM, in 7/4, 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 Forest in the Selenium hard to play on drums?

47 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 6:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 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 Forest in the Selenium?

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 24, 31, 32, 44, 54, 55 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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