Murder Seed · Tallah

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 27-29, and 1 more place -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
MURDER SEED · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 26, 38, 43, 52, 63, 64 and 7 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 14 sections: 68 keep time, 13 are fills, 8 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-14.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AN
PART AT
PART AY
PART BC
OUTRO
13 groovesABCZATAN+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Murder Seed?

92 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 Murder Seed hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Seed?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 26, 38, 43, 52, 63, 64 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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