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Unfit Earth · Napalm Death

EXERCISE 20 OF 76
Fill at bar 17, 33 and 41
137 / 218 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART D
PART D
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unfit Earth on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-53, ride through bars 54-129, kick and crashes through bars 130-133 and ride through bars 134-218.

The beat

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.

    55
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Unfit Earth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 16-57 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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