Empire Of The Clouds · Iron Maiden

461 bars, 24:00, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
461
LENGTH
24:00
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 203-204, 207 and 209-211, and 20 more places -- 7.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
EMPIRE OF THE CLOUDS · BAR 203
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

44 fills to learn, played 142 times: bars 5, 22, 30, 47, 48, 49 and 136 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 81-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

41 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

461 bars across 38 sections: 220 keep time, 142 are fills, 46 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 137-148.

PART M
CHORUS 3
PART DR
PART DR
30 groovesBKDRMFHH+25Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Empire Of The Clouds?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Empire Of The Clouds hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

461 bars, about 24:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 148 exercises over 44 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Empire Of The Clouds?

44 fills to learn, played 142 times: bars 5, 22, 30, 47, 48, 49 and 136 more.

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