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The Unnamed Feeling · Metallica

EXERCISE 3 OF 65
Groove V -- Outro
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0 / 65 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AC
OUTRO
13 groovesKVACSB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 1
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Unnamed Feeling on drums

138 bars, 7:10, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
7:10
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-12, toms through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-18 and ride through bars 19-44, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-25, 27-28 and 30-31, and 6 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx-x-----x-x----|
The Unnamed Feeling -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 23, 26, 32 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- K, S -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 7-13 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-19 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-24 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Unnamed Feeling?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Unnamed Feeling hard to play on drums?

63 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 7:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Unnamed Feeling?

11 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 23, 26, 32 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED