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Unwavering Vow · Counterparts

EXERCISE 4 OF 60
Groove I -- Part I
25 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART J
PART C
PART I
PART J
CHORUS
PART S7
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART AO
BREAK 4
12 groovesOAOJS17S7+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unwavering Vow on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-9, hi-hat through bars 10-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-30 and snare through bars 31-49, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Unwavering Vow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- O -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 20-53 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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