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The Forgotten Melody · Booxras

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove J -- Chorus
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0 / 38 PASSED · 56 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJMAHDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Forgotten Melody on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
73/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-41, hi-hat through bars 42-50, ride through bars 51-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-66, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
The Forgotten Melody -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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