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Image · Hemlok

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 40 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Image on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-64, snare through bars 65-72, hi-hat through bars 73-87, toms through bars 88-89, snare through bars 90-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-110, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |------x--x--------x-----------x--x--------x-----|
Image -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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