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Impersonating Theories · Amoniac

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove Q -- Part Q
0 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART Q, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART R
PART T
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCQRTADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Impersonating Theories on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
83/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-13, hi-hat through bars 14-20, ride through bars 21-32 and snare through bars 33-40, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-27, 41-42 and 44, and 2 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------X---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Impersonating Theories -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 1-33 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Impersonating Theories?

112 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 Impersonating Theories hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Impersonating Theories?

9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED