Unchain Utopia · Epica

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-14, 17-18 and 63-66, and 2 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 91 BPM
UNCHAIN UTOPIA · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 21, 25, 29 and 22 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 29-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 9 sections: 47 keep time, 28 are fills, 2 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-66.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART C
PART S6
PART O
OUTRO
8 groovesHCLTS6+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unchain Utopia?

91 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Utopia hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Utopia?

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 21, 25, 29 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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