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.

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

TEMPO

114 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

136

LENGTH

4:53

DIFFICULTY

50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-68, snare through bars 69-72, hi-hat through bars 73-120, snare through bars 121-124, hi-hat through bars 125-128 and snare through bars 129-133, and 1 more change after that.

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x------x----x|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. Bars 3-81 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
3. Through Part D and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Bars 73-89 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 87-122 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Bars 119-134 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.