bones · Imagine Dragons

74 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-30 and 36-37, and 2 more places -- 83.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BONES · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 58.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 7 sections: 41 keep time, 1 is a fill, 4 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-30.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesBS1S5AS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is bones?

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 bones hard to play on drums?

42 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in bones?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 58.

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