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I, Emperor · Sabaton

EXERCISE 32 OF 41
Groove R
95 / 107 BARS COVERED
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PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGCEMP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I, Emperor on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-88, snare through bars 89-90, hi-hat through bars 91-98, toms through bars 99-102 and snare through bars 103-107.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
I, Emperor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-42 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-66 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-95 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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