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Made To Kill · Megadeth

EXERCISE 7 OF 66
Groove Y -- Part Y
78 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART Y
PART G
CHORUS
PART Y
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO
11 groovesVNYGP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Made To Kill on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 1-15, silence through bars 16-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30, ride through bars 31-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-45, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    51
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------x-----------x--x--------|
Made To Kill -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- V -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 10-23 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 15-32 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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