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EXERCISE 5 OF 43
Groove C
49 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART G
PART J
PART A
PART T
CHORUS
PART X
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesUAJAGX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unity on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-49, snare through bars 50-62, toms through bars 63-64, snare through bars 65-76, hi-hat through bars 77-80 and snare through bars 81-111.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57, 59 and 61-62, and 4 more places -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------------------------x-------|
BD |----x---x-------x---x-----------|
Unity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 31, 63 and 64.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- U, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-42 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-57 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unity?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Unity hard to play on drums?

58 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Unity?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 31, 63 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED