Unwell · Surf Curse

10 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 0:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
10
LENGTH
0:20
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
UNWELL · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

10 bars across 2 sections: 6 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-10.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unwell?

120 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?

35 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

10 bars, about 0:20 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 2 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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