Unfinished Sympathy · Massive Attack

136 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeElectronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 10 and 12-16, and 14 more places -- 60.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 114 BPM
UNFINISHED SYMPATHY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 16 sections: 114 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-54.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 5
7 groovesBDCAF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unfinished Sympathy?

114 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Unfinished Sympathy hard to play on drums?

50 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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