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Unbreakable · Of Mice & Men

EXERCISE 19 OF 68
Groove L -- Part L
77 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART B
PART H
PART L
CHORUS
PART H
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesNBHACL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unbreakable on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, toms through bars 26-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-37, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 32 and 34, and 12 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|
HH |----o---o-------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--x------|
Unbreakable -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 19, 21, 25, 29, 37, 61 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unbreakable?

140 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 Unbreakable hard to play on drums?

59 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Unbreakable?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 19, 21, 25, 29, 37, 61 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED