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Empty Promises · Christone Kingfish Ingram

Empty Promises · Christone Kingfish Ingram
EXERCISE 6 OF 86
Groove N -- Part N
65 / 254 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
PART H
PART N
PART W
PART N
PART R
PART O
CHORUS
PART H
PART N
PART A
16 groovesGAHRO+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 21
LINK · 6
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Empty Promises on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
254
LENGTH
7:55
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-30, ride through bars 31-39, hi-hat through bars 40-58, ride through bars 59-70 and snare through bars 71-72, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---|
Empty Promises -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- G, H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 12-105 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-100 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part O and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-101 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-102 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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