Imaginary Skin · Mouthbreather

113 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 56-58, and 6 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
IMAGINARY SKIN · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 18, 21, 22, 38, 46 and 9 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 46-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 13 sections: 53 keep time, 15 are fills, 16 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

CHORUS
PART L
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART AC
PART S10
PART AH
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAS10LAHAP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Imaginary Skin?

190 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 Imaginary Skin hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Imaginary Skin?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 18, 21, 22, 38, 46 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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