Killing Murder · AA Le Composer

113 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55-70 -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
KILLING MURDER · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 18 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 8-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 38-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 11 sections: 69 keep time, 24 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-99.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART F
PART M
CHORUS
PART V
PART Y
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPAEYMV+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Killing Murder?

120 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 Killing Murder hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Killing Murder?

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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