Imaginary · Evanescence

76 bars, 4:05, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

ElectronicAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 34-36, and 5 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 74 BPM
IMAGINARY · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 21, 33, 37, 42, 54 and 7 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 10 sections: 39 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-16.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHECS7Q+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Imaginary?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Imaginary hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Imaginary?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 21, 33, 37, 42, 54 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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