Emperor drum tabs
10 charts, 118-190 BPM. Each one is read from a real score: play it along to the record, slow it down, or take the practice course under it.
MOST PLAYED
- CHARTS
- 10
- TEMPO
- 118-190 BPM
- BARS IN ALL
- 2,490
- WITH A COURSE
- 9 of 10
- USUAL KEY
- E minor
EVERY EMPEROR CHART
- I Am The Black Wizards178 BPM · 186 BARS · ADVANCED
- The Loss And Curse Of Reverence190 BPM · 234 BARS
- Cosmic Keys To My Creations and Times170 BPM · 230 BARS
- Into The Infinity Of Thoughts165 BPM · 321 BARS
- Thus Spake The Nightspirit118 BPM · 150 BARS
- The Burning Shadows Of Silence170 BPM · 201 BARS
- Wrath Of The Tyrant150 BPM · 142 BARS
- I Am The Black Wizards (Version2)180 BPM · 185 BARS
- Night Of The Graveless Souls165 BPM · 130 BARS
- Emperor Full EP165 BPM · 711 BARS
LEARNING EMPEROR ON DRUMS
10 Emperor drum parts are transcribed here, 2,490 bars of music in total, filed under black metal, metal, rock and symphonic black metal. Every one of them is a chart read from a real score rather than a tab somebody typed out: the notes are where the score put them, the tempo is the record’s own, and the page plays the recording underneath while you read.
Nothing here asks you to play it at full speed on the first pass. Take any chart down to half tempo, loop the four bars that will not come clean, and bring it back up. 9 of these 10 songs also have a practice course under them: the part broken into the few things actually different about it, one at a time, ending with you playing the whole song against the record.
A good place to start is "Thus Spake The Nightspirit" at 118 BPM, the slowest of them, or "Night Of The Graveless Souls" at 130 bars, the shortest. Sheet music, tab, MIDI and MusicXML download from every chart if you would rather read it away from the screen.
QUESTIONS
How many Emperor drum tabs are there?
10 Emperor drum charts, each read from a real score and playable along to the record in the browser. 9 of them come with a practice course that breaks the part into exercises and takes each one up to tempo.
Are Emperor songs hard to play on drums?
Tempos here run from 118 to 190 BPM. The slowest is "Thus Spake The Nightspirit" at 118 BPM, and the shortest is "Night Of The Graveless Souls" at 130 bars, which makes either a reasonable place to start. Every chart also has a simplified version with the hi-hat pulled back and the fills written as eighths on the snare.
What key are most Emperor songs in?
Most often E minor, A major and D minor. The catalogue files them under black metal, metal, rock and symphonic black metal.