Unfogiven · Metalica

114 bars, 6:10, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-13, 19 and 23, and 7 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
UNFOGIVEN · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 43 and 24 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 25-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 4 sections: 65 keep time, 30 are fills, 15 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-92.

PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesERBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unfogiven?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Unfogiven 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Unfogiven?

6 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 43 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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