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Unbreakable · Lorna Shore

EXERCISE 8 OF 72
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 72 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, PART B, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART J
PART U
PART B
PART J
PART U
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesWJUS17B+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unbreakable on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, toms through bars 23-40, snare through bars 41-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-52, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 43 and 45-46, and 9 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx----------------|
Unbreakable -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 60 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 -- W -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 9-29 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-44 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part S6 and Part U -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-51 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unbreakable?

125 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 Unbreakable hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:42 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, high tom, 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 Unbreakable?

18 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED