Forever · Alex G

51 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 2:24 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
51
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-28 and 37-50 -- 60.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
FOREVER · BAR 22
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 51.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 51
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

51 bars across 5 sections: 38 keep time, 1 is a fill and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-50.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forever?

85 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 hard to play on drums?

57 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

51 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Forever?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 51.

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