Unchain My Soul · Dark Funeral

299 bars at 228 BPM -- fast, and 5:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
228 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
299
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-54, 56-58 and 60-62, and 29 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 228 BPM
UNCHAIN MY SOUL · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 67, 83, 91, 99, 107, 115 and 18 more.

LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

299 bars across 16 sections: 256 keep time, 24 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-31.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART F
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGJLAF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unchain My Soul?

228 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 Unchain My Soul hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

299 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 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 Soul?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 67, 83, 91, 99, 107, 115 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 299 BARS ANALYSED
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