Forgot About Dre · Eminem, Dr. Dre

185 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 5:31 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

134 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

185

LENGTH

5:31

DIFFICULTY

47/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-57, silence through bars 58-59, hi-hat through bars 60-77, silence through bars 78-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-145, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-14 and 16, and 26 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- C, I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Bars 60-112 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Bars 111-119 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
7. Through Part C and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. Bars 129-185 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.