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Embracing Emptiness · Crowbar

EXERCISE 11 OF 51
Groove C
61 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS
PART A
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIAMFG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Embracing Emptiness on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
39/100

ride through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-35, ride through bars 36-41, hi-hat through bars 42-44, ride through bars 45-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-50, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 30-31 and 33-35, and 8 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-----------x-|
Embracing Emptiness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- I, A -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-22 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-69 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-68 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-78 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Embracing Emptiness?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Embracing Emptiness 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Embracing Emptiness?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED