Imagination · Foster The People

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-6 and 9-11, and 24 more places -- 54.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
IMAGINATION · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 44 and 9 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 6 sections: 72 keep time, 15 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Imagination?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Imagination hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Imagination?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 44 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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