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Unchain The Night · Dokken

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 59 BARS LIT
PART A
PART D
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHBDPA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unchain The Night on drums

166 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-18, hi-hat through bars 19-42, ride through bars 43-50, hi-hat through bars 51-70 and ride through bars 71-163, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-44, 46-49 and 71-72, and 8 more places -- 37.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Unchain The Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 41, 50, 69, 78, 94, 118 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- H, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-44 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-79 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 86-112 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unchain The Night?

126 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 Unchain The Night hard to play on drums?

56 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Unchain The Night?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 41, 50, 69, 78, 94, 118 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED