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Enemy (Live) · Imagine Dragons

EXERCISE 17 OF 19
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 57-59)
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PART C
CHORUS
VERSE
PART C
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDICEH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Enemy (Live) on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
48/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-11, hi-hat through bars 12-23, snare through bars 24-30, hi-hat through bars 31-42 and kick and crashes through bars 43-47, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-19, 31-34 and 39-41, and 2 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    12
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------X---------------X-------|
BD |X---------------X---------------|
Enemy (Live) -- 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 18 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 -- D, C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-24 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-58 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Enemy (Live)?

77 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 (Live) hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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