Vampire Empire (Official) · Big Thief

53 bars, 3:13, at 66 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
66 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-10, 13-24 and 26-31, and 3 more places -- 70.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 66 BPM
VAMPIRE EMPIRE (OFFICIAL) · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 53.

LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 53
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 2 sections: 50 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-52.

OUTRO
2 groovesES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vampire Empire (Official)?

66 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Vampire Empire (Official) hard to play on drums?

41 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

53 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Vampire Empire (Official)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 53.

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