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Murder Seed · Tallah

Murder Seed · Tallah
EXERCISE 4 OF 61
Groove C
22 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Murder Seed on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, toms through bars 23-26, snare through bars 27-35, ride through bars 36-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-43, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1                                                                2
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----x-----------x-----------x-------x-----------x-------x-------|----x-----------x-----------x-------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---x-----------x-x-----x-x-----x---x-------x-------x---|x-------x---x-----------x-------x-x-x-------x-x---------x-x-x---|
Murder Seed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- A, BC -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-24 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-51 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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