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Enemy · Imagine Dragons, Arcane

Enemy · Imagine Dragons, Arcane
EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove A -- Chorus
0 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART C
PART B
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Enemy on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-21, hi-hat through bars 22-51, silence through bars 52-53, hi-hat through bars 54-77 and kick and crashes through bars 78-85, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-21, 37 and 39, and 8 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Enemy -- 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, B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 26-69 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-73 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Enemy?

154 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 Enemy hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 4 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED