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Unintentional Deformity · No One Gets Out Alive

Unintentional Deformity · No One Gets Out Alive
EXERCISE 12 OF 59
Groove D -- Part D
79 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 4
PART D
PART I
PART P
CHORUS 4
PART D
PART A
OUTRO
8 groovesBLPIA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
JOIN · 11
LINK · 10
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unintentional Deformity on drums

148 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 2-7, snare through bars 8-10, ride through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44 and snare through bars 45-68, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 33-35, and 5 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 9, 10, 16, 28, 30 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, L -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-99 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-44 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-87 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 95-110 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unintentional Deformity?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Unintentional Deformity hard to play on drums?

49 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Unintentional Deformity?

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 9, 10, 16, 28, 30 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED