Master Killer · Merauder

133 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 15 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
MASTER KILLER · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 24, 28, 32, 36, 60 and 12 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 13 sections: 98 keep time, 18 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-19.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFADQNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Master Killer?

145 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 Master Killer hard to play on drums?

59 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Master Killer?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 24, 28, 32, 36, 60 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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