Make Me Forget You · Converge

180 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 12-13, and 15 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
MAKE ME FORGET YOU · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 7, 11, 14, 15, 37, 41 and 30 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 10 sections: 95 keep time, 36 are fills, 36 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-32.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART G
PART V
PART X
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBS10GHV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Make Me Forget You?

176 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 Make Me Forget You hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Make Me Forget You?

21 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 7, 11, 14, 15, 37, 41 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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