Image · Hemlok

121 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 9 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
IMAGE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 6, 42, 44, 46, 68 and 7 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 16 sections: 82 keep time, 13 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-23.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART L
BREAK 2
8 groovesDFLGS16+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Image?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Image hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 13 sittings, about 22 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 Image?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 6, 42, 44, 46, 68 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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