Empty Rooms (1983 Version) · Gary Moore

149 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:58 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-25, 43-48 and 51-60, and 5 more places -- 59.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
EMPTY ROOMS (1983 VERSION) · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 42, 50, 61, 96, 104 and 5 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 7 sections: 80 keep time, 11 are fills, 16 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 122-135.

PART B
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesES6BS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Empty Rooms (1983 Version)?

100 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 Rooms (1983 Version) hard to play on drums?

54 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Rooms (1983 Version)?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 42, 50, 61, 96, 104 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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