The Underking · Mick Gordon

228 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 6:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 93, and 3 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 141 BPM
THE UNDERKING · BAR 141
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 64, 96, 181, 182 and 191.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
LOOP · 141 BPM
BARS 181-182 · LANDS ON BAR 183 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 191 · LANDS ON BAR 192
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

228 bars across 31 sections: 51 keep time, 5 are fills, 77 are stops and 89 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 150-154.

COUNT-IN
PART S12
PART Q
BREAK 7
CHORUS 5
PART S28
OUTRO
25 groovesAS28S21S1D+20Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Underking?

141 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Underking hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Underking?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 64, 96, 181, 182 and 191.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED
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