Unanswered · Suicide Silence

130 bars at 233 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
233 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 16-21 and 44-54, and 2 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 233 BPM
UNANSWERED · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 15, 22, 23, 39, 43, 55 and 3 more.

LOOP · 233 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 233 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 233 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 10 sections: 64 keep time, 10 are fills and 47 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-38.

INTRO
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBACHNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unanswered?

233 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 Unanswered hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 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 Unanswered?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 15, 22, 23, 39, 43, 55 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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