Forever · The Beach Boys

58 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 6 more places -- 49.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 78 BPM
FOREVER · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 4 sections: 52 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-30.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forever?

78 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?

45 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

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