The Unfaithful · Memphis May Fire

138 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 19-20 and 32-38, and 1 more place -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 163 BPM
THE UNFAITHFUL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 11, 16, 22, 26, 30 and 23 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 16 sections: 81 keep time, 29 are fills, 10 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

CHORUS
PART D
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART V
PART Z
PART T
PART AI
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBVTAIAS+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Unfaithful?

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

Is The Unfaithful hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 The Unfaithful?

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 11, 16, 22, 26, 30 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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