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Unbreakable · Veil Of Maya

EXERCISE 4 OF 73
Groove AO -- Part AO (a two-bar phrase)
20 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AO
PART G
PART R
PART W
PART AC
PART Y
PART AO
PART AU
OUTRO 2
10 groovesS12GRWAU+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unbreakable on drums

171 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-11, toms through bars 12-15, snare through bars 16-21 and toms through bars 22-25, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-36 and 39-42, and 2 more places -- 10.8% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Unbreakable -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 71 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 -- R -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part R and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part W -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part AC -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unbreakable?

180 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 Unbreakable hard to play on drums?

61 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 3:35 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, 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?

17 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 71 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED