Death Empress · Disembodied Tyrant

24 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 1:04 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
24
LENGTH
1:04
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14 and 16-18 -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
DEATH EMPRESS · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 7, 12, 15 and 23.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

24 bars across 4 sections: 6 keep time, 4 are fills, 5 are stops and 6 are silent.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFS1S2HFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death Empress?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Death Empress hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

24 bars, about 1:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 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.

How many fills are in Death Empress?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 7, 12, 15 and 23.

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