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Unleashed · Epica

EXERCISE 8 OF 64
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
65 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART E
PART M
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesRMPEAC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unleashed on drums

140 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 94 BPM, 5:45 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-14, hi-hat through bars 15-34, ride through bars 35-41, snare through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-59, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-40, 60-65 and 105-117 -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-xxxxx-x-x-x-xxxx|
Unleashed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- P -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 13-35 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 19-46 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unleashed?

94 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Unleashed hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Unleashed?

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED