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Unwell · Matchbox Twenty

EXERCISE 11 OF 26
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 19-21)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unwell on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-19, hi-hat through bars 20-53, toms through bars 54-56 and ride through bars 57-79.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
BD |x------xx-------|
Unwell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- K, E -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-41 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-57 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED