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Forest in the Selenium · Pli

EXERCISE 13 OF 44
Run J1 · Part J (bars 37-47)
36 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forest in the Selenium on drums

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.

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

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

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-48, silence through bars 49-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-68, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--------x---x-o-|x---x---o---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|x---x-------x---|
Forest in the Selenium -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, V -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-56 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part Q and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part V and Part AA -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Bars 75-92 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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