The Unknowing · jfarrari

147 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-53, 55 and 65-69, and 11 more places -- 83.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 180 BPM
THE UNKNOWING · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 3 sections: 136 keep time, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-146.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Unknowing?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Unknowing hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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