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Unwritten · Natasha Bedingfield

Unwritten · Natasha Bedingfield
EXERCISE 12 OF 20
Join Chorus 4 to Part D (bars 51-53)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4, PART D
CHORUS
VERSE
VERSE 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART D
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
VERSE 4
4 groovesACDS10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unwritten on drums

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

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-77, silence through bars 78-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-104.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-xx-x--|x------xx----x--|
Unwritten -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-87 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-88 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED