Imprison Life · Bullgrim

174 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 7:06 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
7:06
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-45 and 62-69 -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
IMPRISON LIFE · BARS 38-39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 8 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 18-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 154-158 · LANDS ON BAR 159 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 7 sections: 29 keep time, 14 are fills, 123 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-69.

PART E
CHORUS
PART J
PART S5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHEJS5M+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Imprison Life?

98 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 Imprison Life hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 7:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Imprison Life?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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