The Unforgiven III · Metallica

204 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 9:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
9:10
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-35, 67-72 and 74-80, and 6 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 89 BPM
THE UNFORGIVEN III · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 30 more.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BARS 36-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 24 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BARS 134-135 · LANDS ON BAR 136 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 138 · LANDS ON BAR 139 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

204 bars across 16 sections: 113 keep time, 36 are fills, 30 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-126.

CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART V
PART F
OUTRO
9 groovesGBOFV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Unforgiven III?

89 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 The Unforgiven III hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 9:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 III?

8 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED
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