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Bones. · Imagine Dragons

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bones. on drums

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

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-35, hi-hat through bars 36-54, silence through bars 55-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-74.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Bones. -- 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 7 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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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