Empty Promises · Christone Kingfish Ingram

254 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 7:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
254
LENGTH
7:55
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 30 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
EMPTY PROMISES · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 13, 15, 17, 25, 31, 49 and 32 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 59-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

254 bars across 24 sections: 143 keep time, 38 are fills, 35 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 215-237.

PART H
PART W
PART R
CHORUS
PART H
PART A
16 groovesGAHRO+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Empty Promises?

128 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 Empty Promises hard to play on drums?

41 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

254 bars, about 7:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Empty Promises?

11 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 13, 15, 17, 25, 31, 49 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 254 BARS ANALYSED
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