Forsake Not The Dream · Trivium

296 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 5:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
296
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 129-134, 137-142 and 193-198, and 3 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 225 BPM
FORSAKE NOT THE DREAM · BAR 130
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 47 more.

LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 33-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

296 bars across 26 sections: 186 keep time, 53 are fills, 24 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 170-182.

PART K
PART K
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesQKDHE+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forsake Not The Dream?

225 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Forsake Not The Dream hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

296 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 21 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 Forsake Not The Dream?

21 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 296 BARS ANALYSED
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