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Forever · Code Orange

EXERCISE 25 OF 50
Join Part H to Part Q (bars 60-62)
73 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART Q
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART N
PART H
PART Q
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGNHQAD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forever on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-66, snare through bars 67-71, hi-hat through bars 72-77, kick and crashes through bars 78-80 and toms through bars 81-82, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 14 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Forever -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 34, 42 and 14 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 -- G -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-40 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-43 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-67 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-73 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 69-80 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part S11 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Forever?

115 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 34, 42 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED