Forgotten Years · Liquify

149 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 6:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 12 more places -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
FORGOTTEN YEARS · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 72 and 10 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 7 sections: 44 keep time, 16 are fills, 24 are stops and 63 are silent.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesCS2S6HS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forgotten Years?

90 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 Years hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 6:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 Forgotten Years?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 72 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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