Bones. · Imagine Dragons

74 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-30, 36-46 and 59-74 -- 76.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BONES. · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 8 sections: 52 keep time and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-30.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBS1ACS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bones.?

114 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?

37 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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