Imelda · Mark Knopfler

160 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-36, 59-65 and 93-112, and 6 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
IMELDA · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 17, 30, 38, 42, 58 and 14 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 13 sections: 125 keep time, 20 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-112.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDIJBWFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Imelda?

120 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 Imelda hard to play on drums?

50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Imelda?

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 17, 30, 38, 42, 58 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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