Impulse · AliA

161 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 43-47, and 7 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 193 BPM
IMPULSE · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 29, 31, 41, 49, 51 and 11 more.

LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 22 sections: 110 keep time, 17 are fills, 6 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-25.

CHORUS
PART F
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART U
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
15 groovesBFMUG+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Impulse?

193 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 Impulse hard to play on drums?

60 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Impulse?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 29, 31, 41, 49, 51 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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