Unminded · Beatsteaks

111 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-18, 27-33 and 35-38, and 6 more places -- 64.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 175 BPM
UNMINDED · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 2, 42, 84 and 88.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 9 sections: 52 keep time, 5 are fills, 34 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-111.

CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART S5
BREAK 3
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesBFS2S5S6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unminded?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Unminded hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Unminded?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 2, 42, 84 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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