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Forever Tonight · Pantera

EXERCISE 30 OF 42
Groove P -- Part P
107 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART P, CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGJAPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forever Tonight on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
56/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-30, toms through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48 and ride through bars 49-54, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 19 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 31, 32, 48 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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, G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-25 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-61 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-69 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 79-112 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Forever Tonight?

113 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 Tonight hard to play on drums?

56 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Tonight?

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 31, 32, 48 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED