Unintended · Muse

45 bars, 2:34, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-27 and 29-43 -- 73.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 70 BPM
UNINTENDED · BAR 14
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 28 and 44.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 3 sections: 36 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-43.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unintended?

70 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 Unintended hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Unintended?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 28 and 44.

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