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The Emptiness Around Me · Jamie François

The Emptiness Around Me · Jamie François
EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove D -- Chorus 2
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PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDGLAS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Emptiness Around Me on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
47/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-15, silence through bars 16-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-38, snare through bars 39-52 and silence through bars 53-56, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23-24 and 34, and 14 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Emptiness Around Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 43, 50, 95, 102, 104, 109 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-59 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-76 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Emptiness Around Me?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Emptiness Around Me hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Emptiness Around Me?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 43, 50, 95, 102, 104, 109 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED