Unwritten · Natasha Bedingfield

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-8, 21-24 and 33-40, and 2 more places -- 47.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
UNWRITTEN · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 12 sections: 89 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-77.

CHORUS
VERSE
VERSE 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
VERSE 4
4 groovesACDS10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unwritten?

100 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 Unwritten hard to play on drums?

59 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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