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Imelda · Mark Knopfler

EXERCISE 27 OF 52
Fill at bar 72 and 149 (a small one)
143 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDIJBWFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Imelda on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, ride through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-58, ride through bars 59-66, hi-hat through bars 67-92 and ride through bars 93-130, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Imelda -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- I, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-37 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-70 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part I -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 124-131 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 129-146 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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