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

EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove A -- Part A
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0 / 50 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART A, PART F
PART B
PART A
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forgiveness is Waiting at the Bottom of the Well on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-24, snare through bars 25-48, hi-hat through bars 49-58, ride through bars 59-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-79, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-------x---x-x-x-x-|
Forgiveness is Waiting at the Bottom of the Well -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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