Forever Longing The Golden Sunsets · Appleseed Cast

177 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 121-144 and 161-175 -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
FOREVER LONGING THE GOLDEN SUNSETS · BARS 121-122
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 48, 72, 80, 88, 112 and 3 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 176 · LANDS ON BAR 177
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 13 sections: 130 keep time, 9 are fills and 21 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 122-143.

PART D
PART F
PART I
PART A
PART F
PART I
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJFAID+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forever Longing The Golden Sunsets?

155 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 Longing The Golden Sunsets hard to play on drums?

42 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Longing The Golden Sunsets?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 48, 72, 80, 88, 112 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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