Unfamiliar. · Currents

185 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 49 more places -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
UNFAMILIAR. · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 40, 56, 74, 78, 82, 86 and 5 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 185
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 10 sections: 87 keep time, 11 are fills, 56 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-48.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
OUTRO
6 groovesBIES8S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unfamiliar.?

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 Unfamiliar. 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Unfamiliar.?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 40, 56, 74, 78, 82, 86 and 5 more.

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