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I Keep Forgettin' · Michael Mcdonald

I Keep Forgettin' · Michael Mcdonald
EXERCISE 15 OF 32
Groove O
59 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, VERSE, OUTRO 2
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLSCABHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Keep Forgettin' on drums

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.

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
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
54/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
I Keep Forgettin' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- L, S -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-15 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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