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Forget Her - Jeff Buckley · Jeff Buckley

EXERCISE 20 OF 56
Fill at bar 92 (a small one)
113 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART T
7 groovesACQACS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forget Her - Jeff Buckley on drums

165 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 92 BPM, 5:23 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
59/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-44, hi-hat through bars 45-60, ride through bars 61-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-116, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 25-28 and 30-31, and 11 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1.....2.....3.....
RD |x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |---------x--------|
BD |x--------------x--|
Forget Her - Jeff Buckley -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 32, 60, 68, 76, 92, 96 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- A, C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part Q and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Forget Her - Jeff Buckley?

92 BPM, in 3/4, 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 - Jeff Buckley hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Forget Her - Jeff Buckley?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 32, 60, 68, 76, 92, 96 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED