Empty Words · Death

212 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 8:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
8:29
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 69-70, 73-74 and 77-78, and 10 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
EMPTY WORDS · BARS 69-70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 98 times: bars 18, 20, 24, 26, 28, 31 and 92 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

212 bars across 15 sections: 85 keep time, 98 are fills and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-42.

PART S2
PART B
CHORUS
PART AA
PART AJ
PART AN
PART AU
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
13 groovesGAAAUAJB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Empty Words?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Words hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 8:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Words?

17 fills to learn, played 98 times: bars 18, 20, 24, 26, 28, 31 and 92 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED
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