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Unravelling · Muse

EXERCISE 17 OF 40
Run M1 · Part M (bars 34-36)
40 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART S5
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHVQBS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unravelling on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-21, toms through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-37 and silence through bars 38-46, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------x-----x-|
BD |x-----x---x-----------x---x-----|
Unravelling -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-54 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-54 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED