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Unravel · Tk From Ling Tosite Sigure

Unravel · Tk From Ling Tosite Sigure
EXERCISE 1 OF 70
Groove R -- Chorus
0 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART T
PART AC
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART U
OUTRO
14 groovesRCTACAS+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unravel on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-36, snare through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-58, ride through bars 59-62 and toms through bars 63-65, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 67-71 and 73, and 2 more places -- 22.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-----x---g-x-x-|
BD |x-----x-----x-------------------|
Unravel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- R, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-37 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unravel?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Unravel hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Unravel?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED