Unquestionable Presence · Atheist

159 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 82-84, 86-88 and 90-92, and 1 more place -- 6.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
UNQUESTIONABLE PRESENCE · BARS 82-83
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 22, 40, 44, 48, 51, 52 and 35 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 14 sections: 87 keep time, 44 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-20.

PART C
CHORUS
PART P
PART AQ
PART AY
PART BE
PART BI
PART BO
PART P
OUTRO
13 groovesWPCAYBO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unquestionable Presence?

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

Is Unquestionable Presence hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Unquestionable Presence?

19 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 22, 40, 44, 48, 51, 52 and 35 more.

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