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Un-american · Pro-Pain

Un-american · Pro-Pain
EXERCISE 8 OF 40
Groove F
61 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Un-american on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-37, snare through bars 38-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-66, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----------x-|
Un-american -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-41 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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