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Forlorn Hope · After Forever

EXERCISE 24 OF 60
Groove O -- Part O (a two-bar phrase)
72 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
PART B
PART G
PART B
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART S13
OUTRO
11 groovesIBGS13R+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forlorn Hope on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 5:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-13, toms through bars 14-17, ride through bars 18-30, snare through bars 31-39 and ride through bars 40-65, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-21, 23-26 and 40-43, and 2 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Forlorn Hope -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 34, 56, 76, 77, 93, 101 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-18 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-35 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Forlorn Hope?

87 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Forlorn Hope hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 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 Forlorn Hope?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 34, 56, 76, 77, 93, 101 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED