Unwavering Vow · Counterparts

154 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 24 and 32-34, and 7 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 208 BPM
UNWAVERING VOW · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 11, 13, 16 and 49 more.

LOOP · 208 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 18 sections: 48 keep time, 55 are fills, 17 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-34.

PART C
CHORUS
PART S7
CHORUS 3
PART AO
BREAK 4
12 groovesOAOJS17S7+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unwavering Vow?

208 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 Unwavering Vow hard to play on drums?

57 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Unwavering Vow?

17 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 11, 13, 16 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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