Forever Yours · Ken Yokoyama

130 bars at 226 BPM -- fast, and 2:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
226 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-15 and 38-40, and 4 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 226 BPM
FOREVER YOURS · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 5, 9, 16, 17, 23, 25 and 52 more.

LOOP · 226 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 226 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 226 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 226 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 11 sections: 36 keep time, 58 are fills and 27 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-52.

CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
PART AG
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDKHAGABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forever Yours?

226 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 Yours hard to play on drums?

62 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Forever Yours?

17 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 5, 9, 16, 17, 23, 25 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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