The Forever People · My Dying Bride

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-55 -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
THE FOREVER PEOPLE · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20 and 20 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 9 sections: 53 keep time, 26 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-56.

PART C
PART G
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesREXAG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Forever People?

90 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 Forever People hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 17 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 The Forever People?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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