Forgiveness is Waiting at the Bottom of the Well · Since My Beloved

122 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 7 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
FORGIVENESS IS WAITING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WELL · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 32, 48, 64 and 106.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 11 sections: 80 keep time, 5 are fills, 18 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART B
PART D
PART F
PART A
PART L
PART M
PART S8
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesVAZFL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forgiveness is Waiting at the Bottom of the Well?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Forgiveness is Waiting at the Bottom of the Well hard to play on drums?

64 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Forgiveness is Waiting at the Bottom of the Well?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 32, 48, 64 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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