Forgotten Past · Death

200 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-40, 61-76 and 81-83, and 8 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
FORGOTTEN PAST · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 17, 44, 52 and 15 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 14 sections: 157 keep time, 21 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 125-143.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART K
PART C
CHORUS 3
6 groovesHKCIR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forgotten Past?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Forgotten Past hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 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 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 Forgotten Past?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 17, 44, 52 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED
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