Vampire Empire · *GRRRL Bands - Big Thief

105 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-29, 31-47 and 51-57, and 3 more places -- 78.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 131 BPM
VAMPIRE EMPIRE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 49, 97, 101 and 103.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 3 sections: 89 keep time, 4 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-29.

OUTRO 2
3 groovesCAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vampire Empire?

131 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?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Vampire Empire?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 49, 97, 101 and 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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