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Forever · Kamelot

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART Q
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAFHQC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forever on drums

173 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-29, hi-hat through bars 30-45, ride through bars 46-53, hi-hat through bars 54-85 and ride through bars 86-91, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 54-68 and 94-105, and 4 more places -- 41.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 29, 45, 53 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-70 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-112 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 109-127 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Forever?

170 BPM, in 4/4, 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 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 29, 45, 53 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED