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Miss Murder · AFI

EXERCISE 3 OF 59
Groove I -- Part I
28 / 114 BARS COVERED
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PART S2
PART G
PART I
PART K
PART P
PART S
CHORUS
PART S9
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEKS9AHP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Miss Murder on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-10, hi-hat through bars 11-16, toms through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and snare through bars 33-38, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 33-35 and 37-38, and 2 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x--x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Miss Murder -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 12, 24, 31, 32, 44 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-33 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-73 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-94 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Miss Murder?

144 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 Miss Murder hard to play on drums?

64 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Miss Murder?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 12, 24, 31, 32, 44 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED