Corpse Pose · Unwound

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 6 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 82 BPM
CORPSE POSE · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 8 sections: 44 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-14.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesCBDS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Corpse Pose?

82 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 Corpse Pose hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 21 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.

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