Murder · Katatonia

160 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-40, 113-143 and 145-160 -- 54.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MURDER · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 144.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 144 · LANDS ON BAR 145
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 11 sections: 121 keep time, 1 is a fill, 18 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-40.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART C
PART D
PART F
PART C
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCDFS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Murder?

130 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 hard to play on drums?

44 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Murder?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 144.

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