Murder One · Metallica

160 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 5:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-22, 24-26 and 29-31, and 19 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 106 BPM
MURDER ONE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 23, 32, 43, 44, 51, 53 and 23 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 15 sections: 56 keep time, 29 are fills and 58 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 126-132.

PART B
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART V
PART W
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
7 groovesEBGWN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Murder One?

106 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 One hard to play on drums?

42 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 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Murder One?

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 23, 32, 43, 44, 51, 53 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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