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Imaginary Skin · Mouthbreather

Imaginary Skin · Mouthbreather
EXERCISE 26 OF 52
Join Part O to Chorus 2 (bars 38-40)
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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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Imaginary Skin on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-23, snare through bars 24-39, hi-hat through bars 40-45, toms through bars 46-55 and snare through bars 56-63, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
Imaginary Skin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- L, A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-19 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-23 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-27 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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