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Empire (Let Them Sing) · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 3 OF 35
Groove W -- Part W
70 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Empire (Let Them Sing) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-56, snare through bars 57-65, toms through bars 66-81 and silence through bars 82-89, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Empire (Let Them Sing) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-70 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 80-114 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 131-146 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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