Lifetime Achievement Award · Unwound

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 26, and 11 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25 and 10 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 50-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 11 sections: 94 keep time, 16 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-125.

PART B
PART A
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDAJBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lifetime Achievement Award?

100 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 Lifetime Achievement Award hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Lifetime Achievement Award?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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