Assassin · John Mayer

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-30, 32-34 and 36, and 10 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
ASSASSIN · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 24, 42, 46, 48, 50 and 8 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 8 sections: 79 keep time, 14 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-41.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Assassin?

80 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 Assassin hard to play on drums?

53 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Assassin?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 24, 42, 46, 48, 50 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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