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The Forgotten · Broken Crown

EXERCISE 18 OF 46
Groove M
68 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART E
PART B
PART O
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLBCOT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Forgotten on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-18, snare through bars 19-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-35, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 19-22 and 37, and 12 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
The Forgotten -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- C, L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-26 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part B and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-69 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Forgotten?

125 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 The Forgotten hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Forgotten?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED