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Together Forever · STRFKR

EXERCISE 6 OF 47
Groove B
62 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART F
CHORUS 5
PART U
OUTRO
8 groovesAFXUAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Together Forever on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-93, toms through bars 94-96, hi-hat through bars 97-105, ride through bars 106-110 and hi-hat through bars 111-121.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 13 more places -- 31.4% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Together Forever -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 40, 64, 80, 96, 104 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- A, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 18-31 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-42 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and the Break 2 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Together Forever?

120 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 Together Forever hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Together Forever?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 40, 64, 80, 96, 104 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED