The Empress · Undead Corporation

146 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 66-72 and 74-79, and 2 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
THE EMPRESS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 38 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 10-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 16 sections: 79 keep time, 44 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-39.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART L
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART AC
PART AE
CHORUS 3
9 groovesJLTPAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Empress?

135 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 The Empress hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 18 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 The Empress?

17 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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