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The Forest Whispers My Name · Cradle Of Filth

EXERCISE 7 OF 84
Groove AH -- Part AH
37 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AH, PART U
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART O
PART V
PART AH
PART U
PART AP
OUTRO 2
13 groovesGCVOU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Forest Whispers My Name on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
93/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-43, ride through bars 44-53, hi-hat through bars 54-61, ride through bars 62-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-77, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-37 and 112-123 -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26                               27
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X---------------------------X---|X-------------------------------|
RD |--------------------------------|----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o-----------|--------------------------------|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x-xxx-x---|----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x-------x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
The Forest Whispers My Name -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 13, 23, 25 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Forest Whispers My Name?

120 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 The Forest Whispers My Name hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 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 The Forest Whispers My Name?

21 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 13, 23, 25 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED