Empusa: Queen Of The Damned · Infant Annihilator

193 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26, 28-30 and 45, and 8 more places -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
EMPUSA: QUEEN OF THE DAMNED · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 103 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 15 and 97 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 17 sections: 66 keep time, 103 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-31.

PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART AW
PART C
OUTRO
10 groovesMCAWJE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Empusa: Queen Of The Damned?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Empusa: Queen Of The Damned hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 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 Empusa: Queen Of The Damned?

30 fills to learn, played 103 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 15 and 97 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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