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EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 52 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unfamiliar. on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56, snare through bars 57-128 and silence through bars 129-145, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Unfamiliar. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 40, 56, 74, 78, 82, 86 and 5 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 94-185 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED