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Unicorn Tears · Alternative Competition 6

EXERCISE 18 OF 28
Join Chorus 2 to Break 2 (bars 74-76)
74 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, BREAK 2
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unicorn Tears on drums

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.

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
130 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-41 and silence through bars 42-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----x-----|
SD |x-----x-----|
BD |x-xxxxx-xxxx|
Unicorn Tears -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- N -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-65 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 74-100 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 84-111 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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