Unchain My Heart · Gorgoroth

219 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 104-133 and 152-165 -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
UNCHAIN MY HEART · BAR 105
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 48, 56, 86, 87, 102, 103 and 12 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 86-87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 102-103 · LANDS ON BAR 104 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

219 bars across 22 sections: 149 keep time, 18 are fills, 4 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-47.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART E
17 groovesQEBTS1+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unchain My Heart?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Unchain My Heart hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Unchain My Heart?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 48, 56, 86, 87, 102, 103 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED
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