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Expect The Unexpected · Control Denied

EXERCISE 1 OF 83
Groove H -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Expect The Unexpected on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
258
LENGTH
5:55
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-89, toms through bars 90-91, hi-hat through bars 92-93 and ride through bars 94-121, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xxx-x-xxxxxxxx|
Expect The Unexpected -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-23 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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