Big Empty · Stone Temple Pilots

75 bars, 4:50, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-19, 34-40 and 58-60, and 1 more place -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 62 BPM
BIG EMPTY · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 33, 43, 45, 47, 50 and 12 more.

LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BARS 50-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 8 sections: 43 keep time, 18 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART C
PART K
CHORUS
PART C
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesNKCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Big Empty?

62 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Big Empty hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 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 Big Empty?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 33, 43, 45, 47, 50 and 12 more.

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