Forsaken · As I Lay Dying

183 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
6:06
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53, 55 and 57, and 8 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
FORSAKEN · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 22, 27, 28, 32, 36, 44 and 11 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 11 sections: 124 keep time, 17 are fills, 27 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-79.

PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesNGQTC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forsaken?

120 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 6:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Forsaken?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 22, 27, 28, 32, 36, 44 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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