Unlocking · Periphery

126 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 90, 96 and 102-108, and 1 more place -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
UNLOCKING · BAR 102
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 51 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 10-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 29-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 10 sections: 44 keep time, 57 are fills, 7 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-56.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART O
PART V
PART AA
PART AW
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAZAAS2OV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unlocking?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Unlocking hard to play on drums?

55 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Unlocking?

15 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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