Empty Rooms · Gary Moore

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24, 27-32 and 43-46, and 4 more places -- 59.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
EMPTY ROOMS · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 33, 36, 47, 48, 59 and 5 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 8 sections: 56 keep time, 11 are fills, 7 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-97.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDS1S6IB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Empty Rooms?

98 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 hard to play on drums?

38 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Rooms?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 33, 36, 47, 48, 59 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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