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Forsaken · Aegirson

EXERCISE 4 OF 61
Groove G -- Part G
29 / 202 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART A
PART B
PART G
PART H
PART H
PART G
10 groovesEGHLJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forsaken on drums

202 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-62, snare through bars 63-66, hi-hat through bars 67-70, snare through bars 71-74, hi-hat through bars 75-102 and snare through bars 103-106, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 125-131, 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.

    125
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Forsaken -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 25, 26, 30, 34, 62 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-27 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-46 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-82 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-98 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Forsaken?

140 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 Forsaken hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Forsaken?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 25, 26, 30, 34, 62 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED