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Forsaken Horizon · Caliban

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove S -- Chorus
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PART B
PART F
PART K
PART L
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesSBLFK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forsaken Horizon on drums

129 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, snare through bars 21-23, silence through bars 24-25 and snare through bars 26-33, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-73, 98-102 and 104-119 -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    58
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Forsaken Horizon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 3, 4, 21, 22, 37, 41 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- S -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-75 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Forsaken Horizon?

185 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 Horizon hard to play on drums?

54 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Horizon?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 3, 4, 21, 22, 37, 41 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED