Empire (Let Them Sing) · Bring Me The Horizon

177 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 15 more places -- 35.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 193 BPM
EMPIRE (LET THEM SING) · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 49, 66, 67, 68, 69, 74 and 14 more.

LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BARS 66-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BARS 106-113 · LANDS ON BAR 114 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 129 · LANDS ON BAR 130

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 13 sections: 35 keep time, 20 are fills, 87 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-41.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART M
PART W
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBGMS1W+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Empire (Let Them Sing)?

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

Is Empire (Let Them Sing) hard to play on drums?

38 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Empire (Let Them Sing)?

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 49, 66, 67, 68, 69, 74 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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