Unfamiliar · Oceansize

284 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 138 BPM, 6:19 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
284
LENGTH
6:19
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 10 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
UNFAMILIAR · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 15, 34, 35, 36, 42, 43 and 60 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 34-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

284 bars across 16 sections: 141 keep time, 66 are fills and 58 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 176-192.

CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART U
PART AH
PART AJ
CHORUS 2
PART AY
OUTRO
15 groovesAAJMUH+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unfamiliar?

138 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Unfamiliar hard to play on drums?

62 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

284 bars, about 6:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 Unfamiliar?

23 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 15, 34, 35, 36, 42, 43 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 284 BARS ANALYSED
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