Empty Promises · Hatebreed

39 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 0:55 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
39
LENGTH
0:55
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14 -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 171 BPM
EMPTY PROMISES · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 7, 15, 23, 27 and 39.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

39 bars across 6 sections: 22 keep time, 5 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-14.

PART A
BREAK
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDHJFA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Empty Promises?

171 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Empty Promises hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

39 bars, about 0:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Empty Promises?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 7, 15, 23, 27 and 39.

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