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Imaginary · Evanescence

EXERCISE 10 OF 40
Fill at bar 71 and 73 (a small one)
40 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Imaginary on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33 and ride through bars 34-43, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-72 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 14-34 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-55 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-71 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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