Merry-Axe-Mas · Iccceeee Ninnnne Killlllss

142 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22, 24-28 and 58, and 3 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
MERRY-AXE-MAS · BARS 24-25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 4, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19 and 42 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 20 sections: 51 keep time, 48 are fills, 20 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-94.

PART D
PART J
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART S13
PART U
PART Y
PART AD
PART J
CHORUS 3
14 groovesNJGYD+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Merry-Axe-Mas?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Merry-Axe-Mas hard to play on drums?

63 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Merry-Axe-Mas?

19 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 4, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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