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The Forgotten One · Alternative Competition 3

EXERCISE 19 OF 32
Join Part G to Part J (bars 40-42)
82 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART J
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDRJS1G+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Forgotten One on drums

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.

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
33/100

silence through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-37, toms through bars 38-40, ride through bars 41-47, toms through bars 48-49 and snare through bars 50-66, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D, R -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 20-42 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and Part J -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-66 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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