Personal Forest · Psychonaut 4

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 33-45 and 67-80, and 1 more place -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
PERSONAL FOREST · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 28, 81, 82, 90, 98 and 6 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 81-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 9 sections: 42 keep time, 12 are fills, 43 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-97.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
PART Q
OUTRO
9 groovesCKQBI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Personal Forest?

120 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 Personal Forest hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Personal Forest?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 28, 81, 82, 90, 98 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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