III · Far From Forgiven

210 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 18 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
III · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 98, 146, 150 and 186.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 146 · LANDS ON BAR 147
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 150 · LANDS ON BAR 151
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 186 · LANDS ON BAR 187
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 23 sections: 146 keep time, 4 are fills, 25 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-69.

CHORUS
PART B
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART M
PART AM
OUTRO 2
22 groovesAKAEIG+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is III?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is III hard to play on drums?

64 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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 III?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 98, 146, 150 and 186.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
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