Sharks · Imagine Dragons

105 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-58, 76-82 and 91-101 -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
SHARKS · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 11 sections: 72 keep time and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-105.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
PART E
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMECS1S10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sharks?

124 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 Sharks hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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