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Empty Rooms · Gary Moore

EXERCISE 17 OF 26
Join Chorus 2 to Part S6 (bars 58-60)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART S6
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Empty Rooms on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-37, silence through bars 38-42, hi-hat through bars 43-46, snare through bars 47-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Empty Rooms -- 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, 33, 36, 47, 48, 59 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-49 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 58-79 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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