The Unforgiven. · Metallica

114 bars, 6:10, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 18-19 and 22-23, and 10 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
THE UNFORGIVEN. · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 25, 27, 48, 50, 68, 76 and 5 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 11 sections: 75 keep time, 11 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-94.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEOJBAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Unforgiven.?

72 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. hard to play on drums?

57 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 25, 27, 48, 50, 68, 76 and 5 more.

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