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Unsainted · Slipknot

EXERCISE 21 OF 67
Join Part J to Chorus (bars 73-75)
114 / 216 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART AI
11 groovesMFBADS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unsainted on drums

216 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-18, toms through bars 19-50, snare through bars 51-134, toms through bars 135-152, snare through bars 153-166 and toms through bars 167-168, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-56, 59-64 and 93-98, and 2 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Unsainted -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 57, 58, 65, 66, 74, 76 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- F, B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-75 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 87-193 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unsainted?

202 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 Unsainted hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Unsainted?

15 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 57, 58, 65, 66, 74, 76 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED