Unfit Earth · Napalm Death

218 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-56, 58 and 60-62, and 11 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
UNFIT EARTH · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 33, 41, 45 and 30 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

218 bars across 23 sections: 141 keep time, 36 are fills, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-88.

PART F
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART U
PART U
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
9 groovesJMQUF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unfit Earth?

160 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 Unfit Earth hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Unfit Earth?

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 33, 41, 45 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED
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