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Come Undone · Duran Duran

EXERCISE 3 OF 7
Groove C
87 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 7 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Come Undone on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-92.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-44 and 47-92 -- 96.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |-x-x-x-x-xo--xo-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--xx---x-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x---x---|
Come Undone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Come Undone?

86 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 Come Undone hard to play on drums?

70 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?

92 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Come Undone?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED