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The Forever People · My Dying Bride

EXERCISE 10 OF 56
Fill at bar 8 and 40
38 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART A
PART C
PART G
PART A
PART E
PART A
CHORUS
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesREXAG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Forever People on drums

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.

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

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

hi-hat through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-9, ride through bars 10-15, hi-hat through bars 16-18 and ride through bars 19-20, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41                               42
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|x-x---------x-------------------|
The Forever People -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- R -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 17-25 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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