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Imprisoned XII · Ave Mujica

EXERCISE 30 OF 30
Play the whole song with the record
57 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 72 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
BREAK
PART D
PART S4
CHORUS
PART E
BREAK 2
BREAK 3
OUTRO
8 groovesEKDS7S4+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Imprisoned XII on drums

72 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 2:15 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, silence through bars 21-25, hi-hat through bars 26-49, silence through bars 50-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-40, 42 and 46 -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26                       27
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----------|x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------r-----------|------------r-----|
BD |x-----------------------|x---------x-------|
Imprisoned XII -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 19, 41, 57 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- K -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-48 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-72 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Imprisoned XII?

105 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Imprisoned XII hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:15 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, 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 Imprisoned XII?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 19, 41, 57 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED