Forsaken · Great American Ghost

128 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37-39, and 9 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
FORSAKEN · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 16, 20 and 27 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 12 sections: 55 keep time, 33 are fills, 17 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-15.

PART A
PART E
PART K
CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AG
PART S10
OUTRO
11 groovesNES12ZAG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forsaken?

165 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?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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?

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 16, 20 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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