I, Emperor · Sabaton

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 11 and 13-15, and 11 more places -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
I, EMPEROR · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 12, 35, 38 and 6 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 11 sections: 58 keep time, 12 are fills and 25 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-72.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGCEMP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I, Emperor?

108 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 I, Emperor hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 I, Emperor?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 12, 35, 38 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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