Forget Her · Jeff Buckley

81 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 91 BPM, 5:20 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 13-18 and 21, and 1 more place -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 91 BPM
FORGET HER · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 22.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 7 sections: 31 keep time, 2 are fills and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-40.

PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
BREAK 2
4 groovesS7ACS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forget Her?

91 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Forget Her hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Forget Her?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 22.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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