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Vampire Empire · *GRRRL Bands - Big Thief

Vampire Empire · *GRRRL Bands - Big Thief
EXERCISE 5 OF 17
Groove D
84 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vampire Empire on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-96, ride through bars 97-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-105.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Vampire Empire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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