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Murder · Katatonia

EXERCISE 22 OF 22
Play the whole song with the record
146 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 160 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART C
PART D
PART S7
PART F
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCDFS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Murder on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-73, silence through bars 74-76, hi-hat through bars 77-80, snare through bars 81-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-86, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Murder -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- B, C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 71-89 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 86-160 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED