Impossible Is Nothing · Divine Heresy

181 bars at 218 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
218 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-16, 53-60 and 134, and 5 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 218 BPM
IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 92, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100 and 8 more.

LOOP · 218 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
LOOP · 218 BPM
BARS 96-100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 218 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125
LOOP · 218 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 17 sections: 138 keep time, 14 are fills, 5 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-38.

CHORUS
PART E
PART H
PART E
PART H
PART J
PART Q
PART V
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAEHJQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Impossible Is Nothing?

218 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Impossible Is Nothing hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 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 Impossible Is Nothing?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 92, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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