From This Day Forward · Obliveon

203 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 15 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
FROM THIS DAY FORWARD · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

33 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 10, 24, 26 and 58 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

29 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

203 bars across 19 sections: 108 keep time, 64 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 136-145.

CHORUS
PART D
PART N
PART AH
PART AD
PART T
PART W
PART BI
OUTRO
12 groovesABIWADT+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is From This Day Forward?

180 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 From This Day Forward hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 97 exercises over 29 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 From This Day Forward?

33 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 10, 24, 26 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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