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Forever After · Devoted Salvation

Forever After · Devoted Salvation
EXERCISE 12 OF 47
Groove M -- Part M
87 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART M
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 4
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 5
BREAK
PART V
PART AA
OUTRO
10 groovesDAAS13VB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forever After on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-74, silence through bars 75-97, toms through bars 98-103, snare through bars 104-106, toms through bars 107-112 and snare through bars 113-123, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 118-123, 128-131 and 141, and 1 more place -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    118
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Forever After -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 16, 27, 115, 116, 117 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- AA, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-35 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 40-75 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part T and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 102-118 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part AA -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Forever After?

110 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Forever After hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Forever After?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 16, 27, 115, 116, 117 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED