Unsung · Helmet

163 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 44, 46-49 and 52, and 7 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
UNSUNG · BARS 46-47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 45, 50, 51, 53, 89, 94 and 12 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 50-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 110-111 · LANDS ON BAR 112 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 9 sections: 131 keep time, 18 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-84.

PART B
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART Z
OUTRO
7 groovesGBMZR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unsung?

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 Unsung hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Unsung?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 45, 50, 51, 53, 89, 94 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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