Imagine · John Lennon

56 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 2:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-23 and 25-27, and 4 more places -- 75.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 76 BPM
IMAGINE · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 35, 44, 54 and 55.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 2 sections: 39 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-34.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Imagine?

76 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 Imagine hard to play on drums?

39 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Imagine?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 35, 44, 54 and 55.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 56 BARS ANALYSED
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