The Forgotten Melody · Booxras

188 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 51-57, and 5 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
THE FORGOTTEN MELODY · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 8, 41, 42, 58, 74 and 5 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 10 sections: 124 keep time, 11 are fills, 34 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 173-188.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJMAHDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Forgotten Melody?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Forgotten Melody hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Forgotten Melody?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 8, 41, 42, 58, 74 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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