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Imposter · Bury Tomorrow

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART I
PART D
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Imposter on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, snare through bars 19-25, toms through bars 26-27, snare through bars 28-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-52, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- A, W -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-31 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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