Untruth · Ethic

118 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 13 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
UNTRUTH · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 38 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 11 sections: 56 keep time, 45 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-57.

PART C
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFZOSC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Untruth?

170 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 Untruth hard to play on drums?

59 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 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 Untruth?

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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