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Forever Winter · Antim Grahan

EXERCISE 5 OF 32
Groove C
52 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART H
PART J
PART N
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesQDNHP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 4
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forever Winter on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-28, ride through bars 29-51 and toms through bars 52-56, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 97-107 and 109-119 -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    99
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x--------------x--------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x-----x--x--x--x-----x--x-----x--x--x--|
Forever Winter -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 120.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Forever Winter?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Winter hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 12 sittings, about 22 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 Winter?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED