Unnatural Selection · Havok

198 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-40, 42-44 and 46-48, and 9 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
UNNATURAL SELECTION · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 10, 18, 26, 30, 34, 38 and 19 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 22 sections: 150 keep time and 25 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-53.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART X
PART E
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMGXEI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unnatural Selection?

195 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 Unnatural Selection hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 Unnatural Selection?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 10, 18, 26, 30, 34, 38 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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