Unwell · Matchbox Twenty

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-28, 41-48 and 57-78 -- 56.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 81 BPM
UNWELL · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 56.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 7 sections: 59 keep time, 2 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-78.

PART A
BREAK
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDAS2GFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unwell?

81 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Unwell hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Unwell?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 56.

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