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Impulse · AliA
EXERCISE 3 OF 62
Groove I -- Part I
55 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART I
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
15 groovesBFMUG+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Impulse on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, snare through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-41, snare through bars 42-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-65, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Impulse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-26 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-138 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-42 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-107 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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