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Death Empress · Disembodied Tyrant/Synestia

Death Empress · Disembodied Tyrant/Synestia
EXERCISE 24 OF 91
Groove V -- Part V (a two-bar phrase)
41 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART Z
PART S8
PART AJ
PART C
PART AJ
PART S15
PART S19
OUTRO
16 groovesDAJCVS8+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death Empress on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 5:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-34 and ride through bars 35-36, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 29, and 8 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Death Empress -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-25 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 41-54 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part V and Part Z -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-71 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death Empress?

94 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?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 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 Death Empress?

26 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED