This Dreadful Emptiness · Austere

257 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 8:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
257
LENGTH
8:56
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 4 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
THIS DREADFUL EMPTINESS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64 and 37 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 75-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

257 bars across 15 sections: 163 keep time, 44 are fills, 22 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 161-173.

CHORUS
PART L
PART L
PART S
PART U
PART AH
PART AF
PART S
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAAHSLAF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Dreadful Emptiness?

115 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 This Dreadful Emptiness hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

257 bars, about 8:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 28 sittings, about 24 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 This Dreadful Emptiness?

20 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 257 BARS ANALYSED
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