Unravelling · Muse

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-30, 34 and 50-51, and 2 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
UNRAVELLING · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27 and 15 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 21-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 8 sections: 31 keep time, 21 are fills, 6 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-20.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART S5
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHVQBS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unravelling?

88 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 Unravelling hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 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 Unravelling?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27 and 15 more.

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