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Unnatural Selection · Havok

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove M -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unnatural Selection on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, ride through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34 and ride through bars 35-38, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Unnatural Selection -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 7-22 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 27-39 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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