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Forsaken · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 8 OF 51
Fill at bar 22 (a small one)
98 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forsaken on drums

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.

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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
6:06
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-26, toms through bars 27-32, ride through bars 33-45, hi-hat through bars 46-67 and snare through bars 68-90, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- N, T -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 77-92 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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