Expect The Unexpected · Control Denied

258 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 5:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
258
LENGTH
5:55
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-20, 23-27 and 31-33, and 11 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 21, 22, 28 and 33 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

258 bars across 19 sections: 191 keep time, 39 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-65.

CHORUS
PART N
PART Q
PART S8
PART AL
PART AR
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO 2
16 groovesHNQARAL+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Expect The Unexpected?

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

Is Expect The Unexpected hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

258 bars, about 5:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Expect The Unexpected?

15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 21, 22, 28 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 258 BARS ANALYSED
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