Empire Ants · Gorillaz

118 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:43 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

ElectronicPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-30 and 37-54 -- 45.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
EMPIRE ANTS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 5 sections: 106 keep time and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-118.

CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
VERSE
4 groovesCAS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Empire Ants?

100 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 Empire Ants hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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