Getting Away With Murder · Papa Roach

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 38-40, and 5 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 48, 49 and 74.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 7 sections: 71 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGAMDCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Getting Away With Murder?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Getting Away With Murder hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 11 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Getting Away With Murder?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 48, 49 and 74.

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