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Forever · KISS

EXERCISE 6 OF 39
Groove D -- Part D
35 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forever on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 1-54, toms through bars 55-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 15, and 14 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Forever -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C, A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 10-25 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-49 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Forever?

88 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?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED