The Forgotten One · Alternative Competition 3

106 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-35 and 50-56, and 1 more place -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
THE FORGOTTEN ONE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 38, 39, 40, 44, 48 and 6 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 9 sections: 50 keep time, 12 are fills, 18 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-28.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDRJS1G+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Forgotten One?

130 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 One hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 One?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 38, 39, 40, 44, 48 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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