Vampire Empire · Big Thief

115 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 15 more places -- 63.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
VAMPIRE EMPIRE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 59, 61 and 101.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 7 sections: 94 keep time, 3 are fills, 11 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-28.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBHES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vampire Empire?

128 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 Vampire Empire hard to play on drums?

51 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Vampire Empire?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 59, 61 and 101.

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