Forever · As I Lay Dying

218 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 158-217 -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
FOREVER · BAR 158
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 17, 18, 19, 21, 25 and 18 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 17-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

218 bars across 15 sections: 130 keep time, 24 are fills, 39 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-53.

PART D
PART I
PART N
PART D
PART I
PART AA
PART AD
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAGDINAD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forever?

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

Is Forever hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 17, 18, 19, 21, 25 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED
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