Rukojmí empatie (Hostage of Empathy) · Kostnatění

176 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-29, 36-39 and 46-48, and 8 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 196 BPM
RUKOJMÍ EMPATIE (HOSTAGE OF EMPATHY) · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 12, 13, 19, 20, 23, 30 and 41 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 20 sections: 90 keep time, 47 are fills, 4 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-145.

PART M
PART T
PART S17
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesJALMTZ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rukojmí empatie (Hostage of Empathy)?

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

Is Rukojmí empatie (Hostage of Empathy) hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 Rukojmí empatie (Hostage of Empathy)?

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 12, 13, 19, 20, 23, 30 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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