Legalise Drugs and Murder · Electric Wizard

196 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 6:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
6:16
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-35, 37-43 and 45-59, and 18 more places -- 76.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
LEGALISE DRUGS AND MURDER · BAR 141
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 36, 44, 60, 64, 66 and 16 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 148 · LANDS ON BAR 149 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

196 bars across 4 sections: 45 keep time, 22 are fills, 117 are stops and 10 are silent.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Legalise Drugs and Murder?

125 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 Legalise Drugs and Murder hard to play on drums?

46 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?

196 bars, about 6:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 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 Legalise Drugs and Murder?

4 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 36, 44, 60, 64, 66 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED
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