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Deep Unknown · Stratovarius

EXERCISE 2 OF 77
Groove AI -- Part AI
39 / 203 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AI, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART F
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBAIFSL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deep Unknown on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, snare through bars 29-41, ride through bars 42-53, hi-hat through bars 54-61 and ride through bars 62-75, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Deep Unknown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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