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The Empress · Undead Corporation

EXERCISE 13 OF 69
7-bar fill at bar 10
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Empress on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
90/100

silence through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-34, ride through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-38, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Empress -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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