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Forging Towards The Sunset · Anaal Nathrakh

EXERCISE 2 OF 43
Groove J -- Part J
40 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART K
PART F
PART J
PART F
PART J
PART K
PART J
PART J
12 groovesDFJKA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forging Towards The Sunset on drums

174 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
72/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-25, silence through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-43 and snare through bars 44-47, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 48-55 and 68-75, and 2 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Forging Towards The Sunset -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 44, 45, 46, 47, 67, 93 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, F -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-51 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-119 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-68 -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-117 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Forging Towards The Sunset?

240 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 Forging Towards The Sunset hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Forging Towards The Sunset?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 44, 45, 46, 47, 67, 93 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED