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The Unforgiven II · Metallica

EXERCISE 30 OF 42
2-bar fill at bar 71
70 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCEQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Unforgiven II on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
6:16
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-30, ride through bars 31-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-53, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    4
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x--------x--------x-----|
The Unforgiven II -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, O (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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