Unequal whole · Boundaries

123 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-17 and 19-21, and 5 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 190 BPM
UNEQUAL WHOLE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 22, 24 and 14 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 12 sections: 86 keep time, 20 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-38.

CHORUS
PART I
PART F
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART AE
10 groovesCFAEIQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unequal whole?

190 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 Unequal whole hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Unequal whole?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 22, 24 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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