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Make Me Forget You · Converge

EXERCISE 1 OF 72
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 44 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART V
PART X
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBS10GHV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Make Me Forget You on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-17, snare through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-28, snare through bars 29-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-47, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Make Me Forget You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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