Forever/Always · Sleeping with Sirens

113 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 185 BPM, 3:35 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 56 and 58, and 1 more place -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
FOREVER/ALWAYS · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 12 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 21-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 8 sections: 36 keep time, 18 are fills, 4 are stops and 47 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-46.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART I
PART Q
PART V
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesS8IVADO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forever/Always?

185 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Forever/Always hard to play on drums?

45 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Forever/Always?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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