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Undefeatable (feat. Kellin Quinn) · Tomoya Ohtani

EXERCISE 1 OF 89
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 197 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
PART W
PART AC
PART AN
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDWISL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Undefeatable (feat. Kellin Quinn) on drums

197 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-40, ride through bars 41-53, hi-hat through bars 54-87, snare through bars 88-102 and silence through bars 103-105, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-22, and 8 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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Undefeatable (feat. Kellin Quinn) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 23, 24, 32 and 60 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Undefeatable (feat. Kellin Quinn)?

200 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 Undefeatable (feat. Kellin Quinn) hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Undefeatable (feat. Kellin Quinn)?

23 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 23, 24, 32 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED