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Unshatter · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 20 OF 38
Fill at bar 58 (a small one)
90 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
7 groovesGCNS1K+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unshatter on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-30, snare through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-58, snare through bars 59-67 and silence through bars 68-70, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-37, 51-57 and 59-66, and 3 more places -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    23               24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-----x-----|----x-------x---|
BD |x---x-x-x-x-x---|x---x---x---x---|
Unshatter -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 18, 20, 38, 46, 48, 58 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- G, N -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-58 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 58-92 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 90-115 -- 10 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Unshatter?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Unshatter hard to play on drums?

47 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Unshatter?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 18, 20, 38, 46, 48, 58 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED