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The Unforgiven III · Metallica

EXERCISE 27 OF 61
Run T1 · Part T (bars 101-103)
167 / 204 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART B
PART V
PART F
OUTRO
9 groovesGBOFV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 12
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Unforgiven III on drums

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.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
9:10
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-37 and toms through bars 38-45, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
The Unforgiven III -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- G, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-69 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 99-136 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 101-114 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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