Solitaire Unraveling · Mushroomhead

155 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-25, 27 and 29, and 26 more places -- 73.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 127 BPM
SOLITAIRE UNRAVELING · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 26, 28, 32, 50, 52 and 5 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 5 sections: 130 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-106.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesCS1JS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Solitaire Unraveling?

127 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 Solitaire Unraveling hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Solitaire Unraveling?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 26, 28, 32, 50, 52 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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