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Unconditional · The Bravery

Unconditional · The Bravery
EXERCISE 13 OF 24
Join Chorus to Part B (bars 43-45)
195 / 250 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART B
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART B
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unconditional on drums

250 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 155 BPM, 3:14 of playing on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-44, toms through bars 45-74, ride through bars 75-120 and toms through bars 121-146, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 41-44, and 24 more places -- 47.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25
    1e+a2e+a
RD |----x---|
SD |----x---|
FT |x-------|
BD |x-------|
Unconditional -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 23, 50, 58, 66, 74, 89 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D, B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-78 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 75-204 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Unconditional?

155 BPM, in 2/4, 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 Unconditional hard to play on drums?

52 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

250 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 Unconditional?

2 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 23, 50, 58, 66, 74, 89 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 250 BARS ANALYSED