Unmasked · Infection of the Dying

127 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7, 12 and 34-40, and 5 more places -- 19.5% 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
UNMASKED · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 29, 33, 41, 43, 47 and 10 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 17 sections: 66 keep time, 16 are fills and 27 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-20.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AF
CHORUS 4
PART AO
OUTRO
9 groovesFUAFANK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unmasked?

120 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 Unmasked hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Unmasked?

15 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 29, 33, 41, 43, 47 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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