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Unlocking · Periphery

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove AZ -- Outro 2
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART O
PART V
PART AA
PART AW
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAZAAS2OV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unlocking on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-16, toms through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-57, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    102
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Unlocking -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- AZ, O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part O -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part O and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part V and Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part V and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA and Part S6 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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