'Empty City' by . · John Haydock

12 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 0:22 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
12
LENGTH
0:22
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-12 -- 90.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
'EMPTY CITY' BY . · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

12 bars across 2 sections: 10 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-12.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 'Empty City' by .?

100 BPM, in 3/4, 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 'Empty City' by . hard to play on drums?

37 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

12 bars, about 0:22 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 12 BARS ANALYSED
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