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Unicorn · Altaria

EXERCISE 5 OF 29
Fill at bar 12, 46 and 120 (a small one)
81 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART I
PART F
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unicorn on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-58, ride through bars 59-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-82, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-24 and 36, and 12 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 31, 32, 46, 65, 66 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 4-81 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 78-114 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Unicorn?

142 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Unicorn hard to play on drums?

56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Unicorn?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 31, 32, 46, 65, 66 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED