Unicorn Tears · Alternative Competition 6

132 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 3:24 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-64, 68-75 and 108-115 -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
UNICORN TEARS · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19 and 50 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 84-99 · LANDS ON BAR 100 · PLAYED 16 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 13 sections: 43 keep time, 56 are fills, 1 is a stop and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-64.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART G
PART B
PART G
PART S6
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNGBS11S1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unicorn Tears?

130 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Tears 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 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 Unicorn Tears?

5 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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