Deep Unknown · Stratovarius

203 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 15-21 and 23-25, and 3 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
DEEP UNKNOWN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 26, 27, 34, 35, 49, 53 and 28 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

203 bars across 16 sections: 131 keep time, 34 are fills, 12 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-25.

CHORUS
PART F
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBAIFSL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deep Unknown?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Deep Unknown hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Deep Unknown?

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 26, 27, 34, 35, 49, 53 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED
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