Unwell · Matchbox Twenty

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-77 -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 85 BPM
UNWELL · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 40.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 8 sections: 62 keep time, 2 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-79.

PART A
BREAK
PART C
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEKAS2I+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unwell?

85 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?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 40.

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