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Unauthorized Autobiography · Unwound

EXERCISE 8 OF 25
Groove L -- Part L
65 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBDLS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unauthorized Autobiography on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 3-103.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-14, 39-50 and 75-78, and 1 more place -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o-----------|----o-o---------|
SD |------------x---|------------x---|
T2 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-------x-----|x-x-------x-----|
HF |------x---------|--------x-------|
Unauthorized Autobiography -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 22, 26, 28, 30, 58, 62 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 13-20 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-103 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Unauthorized Autobiography?

147 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Unauthorized Autobiography hard to play on drums?

52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Unauthorized Autobiography?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 22, 26, 28, 30, 58, 62 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED