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Forevermore · Lorna Shore

EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove C -- Part C
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COUNT-IN
PART S3
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART S8
CHORUS 2
PART C
BREAK 4
PART C
15 groovesES16S3CAA+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forevermore on drums

263 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
263
LENGTH
8:46
DIFFICULTY
80/100

silence through bars 1-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-54, silence through bars 55-57, ride through bars 58-65, hi-hat through bars 66-72 and toms through bars 73-82, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-64, 91-93 and 95-97, and 4 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    58
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Forevermore -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 65, 69, 71, 72, 73, 74 and 54 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-98 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 98-122 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Forevermore?

120 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 Forevermore hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

263 bars, about 8:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Forevermore?

15 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 65, 69, 71, 72, 73, 74 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 263 BARS ANALYSED