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Forsake Not The Dream · Trivium

EXERCISE 3 OF 103
Groove K -- Part K
71 / 296 BARS COVERED
0 / 103 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART K
PART K
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesQKDHE+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 19
LINK · 18
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forsake Not The Dream on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
296
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-54, and 36 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    130
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Forsake Not The Dream -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- Q, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-225 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-77 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-132 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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