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Inimical Chimera · After Forever

EXERCISE 18 OF 44
Groove G -- Part G
64 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
PART D
PART B
PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART B
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKBSDG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Inimical Chimera on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, ride through bars 26-41, hi-hat through bars 42-90 and ride through bars 91-111.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-44, 46-48 and 50-52, and 5 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---xxxxxxxxxx|
Inimical Chimera -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 21, 61, 65 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Inimical Chimera?

120 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 Inimical Chimera hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Inimical Chimera?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 21, 61, 65 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED