Murder Ink · Dr. Dre

54 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 2:27 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-18, 20-45 and 47-53 -- 94.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 88 BPM
MURDER INK · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars: 53 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-53.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Murder Ink?

88 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 Murder Ink hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 54 BARS ANALYSED
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