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Forever My Queen · Pentagram

EXERCISE 5 OF 15
Groove E
53 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forever My Queen on drums

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 2:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-60 and kick and crashes through bars 61-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 3 more places -- 53.2% 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-oo--|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x--x--|
Forever My Queen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 61 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 5 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Forever My Queen?

107 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 My Queen hard to play on drums?

52 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 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 My Queen?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 61 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED