Made To Kill · Megadeth

170 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 5:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-64, 66-72 and 122, and 3 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
MADE TO KILL · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21 and 23 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 12-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 19-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 16 sections: 118 keep time, 29 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-64.

PART G
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO
11 groovesVNYGP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Made To Kill?

123 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 Made To Kill hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Made To Kill?

12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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