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Unfamiliar · Oceansize

Unfamiliar · Oceansize
EXERCISE 31 OF 109
3-bar fill at bar 101
122 / 284 BARS COVERED
0 / 109 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
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
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unfamiliar on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
284
LENGTH
6:19
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-29 and snare through bars 30-32, and 28 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
HH |--------o---|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
Unfamiliar -- 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 15, 34, 35, 36, 42, 43 and 60 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- A, M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part U -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part U and Part AB -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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