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Getting Away With Murder · Papa Roach

EXERCISE 4 OF 29
Groove A -- Part A
47 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGAMDCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Getting Away With Murder on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
79/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    22
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
T1 |---------------------------x--------------------|
FT |---------------------x--------x-----------------|
BD |x-----x--------------x-----x--------------------|
Getting Away With Murder -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 1-58 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-61 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED