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Empowerment · Heaven Shall Burn

EXERCISE 8 OF 49
Groove H -- Part H
101 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART K, OUTRO 2
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDHKCB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Empowerment on drums

174 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-17, hi-hat through bars 18-22, snare through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and snare through bars 33-64, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 29 more places -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-x-----|
Empowerment -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 24, 31, 32, 48, 58 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-59 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-59 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-107 -- 11 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 80-127 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Empowerment?

145 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 Empowerment hard to play on drums?

53 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Empowerment?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 24, 31, 32, 48, 58 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED