Unhallowed · Dissection

326 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 11:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
326
LENGTH
11:00
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55-70, 87-93 and 95-101 -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 122 BPM
UNHALLOWED · BAR 55
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

38 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 29, 33, 37 and 89 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

35 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

326 bars across 30 sections: 167 keep time, 95 are fills, 25 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-70.

PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
21 groovesBHVAAH+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unhallowed?

122 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Unhallowed hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

326 bars, about 11:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 125 exercises over 39 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Unhallowed?

38 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 29, 33, 37 and 89 more.

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