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Forsaken · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove C -- Chorus 2
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PART D
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCACFRD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forsaken on drums

205 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 5:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, snare through bars 14-21, ride through bars 22-34, hi-hat through bars 35-45 and snare through bars 46-62, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 57 more places -- 40.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x---------x-|
Forsaken -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 46, 62, 96, 104, 112, 116 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- C, D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-43 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-113 -- 7 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Forsaken?

164 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 Forsaken hard to play on drums?

53 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 46, 62, 96, 104, 112, 116 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED