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Imn · Mudvayne

EXERCISE 20 OF 87
Groove M
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
PART AA
PART AN
CHORUS 3
PART AR
OUTRO
10 groovesDJARS1AN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Imn on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-23, ride through bars 24-27, snare through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-35 and snare through bars 36-37, and 38 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-43, 46-47 and 66-67, and 12 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42               43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xxxx--------xxxx|--------xxxx----|
Imn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 22, 23, 25, 27, 28, 29 and 51 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- P (a two-bar phrase), D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 42-62 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-163 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Imn?

131 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 Imn hard to play on drums?

61 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Imn?

23 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 22, 23, 25, 27, 28, 29 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED