Emperor Full EP · Emperor

711 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 17:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
711
LENGTH
17:28
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 285-291, 293-295 and 297-301, and 18 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
EMPEROR FULL EP · BAR 285
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

52 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 36, 40, 44 and 89 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

48 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

711 bars across 55 sections: 479 keep time, 95 are fills, 30 are stops and 61 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-110.

PART B
34 groovesBMBAJCGBG+29Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Emperor Full EP?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Emperor Full EP hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

711 bars, about 17:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 182 exercises over 61 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Emperor Full EP?

52 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 36, 40, 44 and 89 more.

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