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Rukojmí empatie (Hostage of Empathy) · Kostnatění

EXERCISE 29 OF 83
Groove T -- Part T
66 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rukojmí empatie (Hostage of Empathy) on drums

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.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
91/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-15 and hi-hat through bars 16-18, and 33 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Rukojmí empatie (Hostage of Empathy) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-77 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-41 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 22-52 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Through Part T -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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