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Imitation Of Life · Anthrax

EXERCISE 3 OF 47
Groove S -- Part S
75 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, PART S
PART G
CHORUS
PART P
PART S
OUTRO
9 groovesJSGBP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Imitation Of Life on drums

195 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 5:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-19, toms through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25 and snare through bars 26-36, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-50, 52-66 and 68, and 27 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Imitation Of Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 21, 34, 35, 51, 67 and 10 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 -- J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-115 -- 10 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 125-160 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Imitation Of Life?

142 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 Imitation Of Life 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Imitation Of Life?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 21, 34, 35, 51, 67 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED