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Forgotten Past · Death

EXERCISE 23 OF 49
Groove P
153 / 200 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forgotten Past on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
65/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-56, silence through bars 57-60, hi-hat through bars 61-76, kick and crashes through bars 77-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-96, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Forgotten Past -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 17, 44, 52 and 15 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 -- H, K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-45 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-60 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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