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Master Killer · Merauder

Master Killer · Merauder
EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 42 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Master Killer on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-76, snare through bars 77-81, hi-hat through bars 82-91, snare through bars 92-93, hi-hat through bars 94-124 and snare through bars 125-133.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Master Killer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- F -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-48 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-77 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 88-125 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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