The Unforgiven II · Metallica

108 bars, 6:16, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
6:16
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 12-17, and 8 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 68 BPM
THE UNFORGIVEN II · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 22, 30, 32, 45 and 17 more.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 5 sections: 70 keep time, 23 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-44.

CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCEQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Unforgiven II?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Unforgiven II hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 6:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Unforgiven II?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 22, 30, 32, 45 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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