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Empty Rooms (1983 Version) · Gary Moore

EXERCISE 6 OF 25
Join Chorus to Part B (bars 25-27)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesES6BS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Empty Rooms (1983 Version) on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-62, silence through bars 63-96 and ride through bars 97-149.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Empty Rooms (1983 Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- E, B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 23-51 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 60-113 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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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.

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