Un-american · Pro-Pain

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 5:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 38-40, and 7 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 96 BPM
UN-AMERICAN · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 29, 30, 31, 33, 58 and 10 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 29-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 62-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 12 sections: 82 keep time, 17 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART I
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEIPLS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Un-american?

96 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Un-american hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Un-american?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 29, 30, 31, 33, 58 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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