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Unscathed · Five Finger Death Punch

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove L -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S12
PART A
OUTRO
9 groovesLDAJS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unscathed on drums

156 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-18, toms through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-56, ride through bars 57-60, snare through bars 61-113 and silence through bars 114-124, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 49-55 and 73-79, and 3 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Unscathed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 40, 48, 56 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-89 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unscathed?

160 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 Unscathed hard to play on drums?

53 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Unscathed?

15 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 40, 48, 56 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED