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Unmasked · Infection of the Dying

EXERCISE 25 OF 70
Run U1 · Part U (bars 30-34)
81 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
CHORUS
PART K
PART U
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unmasked on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bars 1-21, ride through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-43, hi-hat through bars 44-47, snare through bars 48-117 and toms through bars 118-119, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    34                                                               35
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---------------x-----------------------x-------x---------------|--------x-------x-----------------------x-------x-------x-------|
Unmasked -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- F, AL (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-22 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 12-26 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-34 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 11 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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