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Unspoken · Pentagram (Mezarkabul)

EXERCISE 17 OF 37
Groove K
102 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART M
CHORUS
PART D
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART M
CHORUS 4
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDAHM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unspoken on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 6:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 2-9, toms through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-21, toms through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and toms through bars 33-40, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-9 and 25-27, and 12 more places -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Unspoken -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 23, 24, 28, 46, 47 and 10 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 -- B, D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F (a two-bar phrase) -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-57 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unspoken?

84 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 Unspoken hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Unspoken?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 23, 24, 28, 46, 47 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED