I Keep Forgettin' · Michael Mcdonald

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-25 and 34, and 6 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 96 BPM
I KEEP FORGETTIN' · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 57, 58, 59 and 61.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 6 sections: 73 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-47.

PART C
PART H
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLSCABHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Keep Forgettin'?

96 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 I Keep Forgettin' 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Keep Forgettin'?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 57, 58, 59 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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