ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In the Forest on drums

290 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 15:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 84 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 290
LENGTH: 15:14
DIFFICULTY: 76/100

hi-hat through bars 3-27, ride through bars 28-45, hi-hat through bars 46-47, ride through bars 48-49, hi-hat through bars 50-51 and ride through bars 52-53, and 35 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 131-132, 135-136 and 139-140, and 3 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    131                                              132
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HF |------------------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------------------|

In the Forest -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 12, 21, 88, 89, 90 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AS -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AV -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part D and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part M and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
and 12 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is In the Forest?

84 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 In the Forest hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

290 bars, about 15:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 In the Forest?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 12, 21, 88, 89, 90 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 290 BARS ANALYSED