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Forever · Papa Roach

EXERCISE 34 OF 34
Play the whole song with the record
108 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 109 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART G
PART I
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDMAI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forever on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-82, snare through bars 83-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-109.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-27, 37-59 and 102-108 -- 45% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
T1 |------x---------|
T2 |----x-----------|
BD |x---------------|
Forever -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 60, 64, 68 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B, D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-33 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-60 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 68-84 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 81-93 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 89-105 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Forever?

108 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 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?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 60, 64, 68 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED