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Forever War (full) · Kickback

Forever War (full) · Kickback
EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove D -- Part D
0 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART Q
9 groovesEAQJD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forever War (full) on drums

137 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-34, snare through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-42, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 21 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----x---x-|
Forever War (full) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-25 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-81 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 84-110 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Forever War (full)?

160 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 War (full) hard to play on drums?

51 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 War (full)?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED