Thunder · Imagine Dragons

120 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieJazz / Blues150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-31, 33-51 and 53-67, and 6 more places -- 93.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 168 BPM
THUNDER · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 3 sections: 110 keep time, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-84.

CHORUS
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thunder?

168 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 Thunder hard to play on drums?

39 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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