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Unrepentant · Trivium

EXERCISE 3 OF 75
Groove O -- Part O
75 / 214 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART O
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART O
PART Q
PART K
PART O
PART G
PART W
CHORUS 4
PART O
15 groovesCKOWG+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unrepentant on drums

214 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-21, ride through bars 22-37, hi-hat through bars 38-69, snare through bars 70-77 and ride through bars 78-93, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 7 more places -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Unrepentant -- 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 4, 8, 12, 20, 29, 61 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- C, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unrepentant?

200 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 Unrepentant hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 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 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 Unrepentant?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 29, 61 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED