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Unminded · Beatsteaks

EXERCISE 6 OF 23
Join Chorus to Break (bars 17-19)
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0 / 23 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unminded on drums

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.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
39/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-18, silence through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-46, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 17-39 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 42-102 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 59-89 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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