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Imperium (Revised) · Machine Head

EXERCISE 5 OF 82
Groove I -- Part I
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COUNT-IN
PART I
PART I
PART AB
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAEIAS1T+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 5
JOIN · 15
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Imperium (Revised) on drums

214 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 8:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
8:34
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, ride through bars 57-58 and toms through bars 59-62, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 137-143, 153-159 and 161-167, and 1 more place -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    153
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------x-----------x--x--------|
Imperium (Revised) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 44, 48, 52, 56, 58, 59 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- AE -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Imperium (Revised)?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Imperium (Revised) hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 8:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Imperium (Revised)?

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 44, 48, 52, 56, 58, 59 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED