Against the Grain · Unsane

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 12 more places -- 47.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
AGAINST THE GRAIN · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 34, 36 and 17 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 7 sections: 71 keep time, 23 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDQACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Against the Grain?

85 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 Against the Grain hard to play on drums?

50 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Against the Grain?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 34, 36 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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