Imposter · Bury Tomorrow

127 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 20, and 11 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
IMPOSTER · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 10, 18, 22, 35, 43 and 9 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 15 sections: 57 keep time, 15 are fills, 35 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-102.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART W
PART X
OUTRO
12 groovesANZWG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Imposter?

150 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 Imposter hard to play on drums?

56 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Imposter?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 10, 18, 22, 35, 43 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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