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Unto Others · At The Gates

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART D
BREAK
8 groovesCADGS17+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unto Others on drums

126 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
82/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-52, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 37-44 and 69-76, and 1 more place -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    13
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Unto Others -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 36, 56, 60, 68, 80 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-13 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-37 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-56 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-77 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unto Others?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Unto Others hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Unto Others?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 36, 56, 60, 68, 80 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED