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Unknown · Gaerea

EXERCISE 11 OF 51
Groove D
47 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART A
CHORUS
PART O
PART R
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
10 groovesKOCRS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unknown on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
89/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-24, ride through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-40, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29 and 31, and 8 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Unknown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 21, 22, 24, 28, 30, 32 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 19-36 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unknown?

90 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 Unknown hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 99 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Unknown?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 21, 22, 24, 28, 30, 32 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED