Murder · Sepultura

178 bars at 234 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
234 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 62-76 and 120-126, and 1 more place -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 234 BPM
MURDER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 18, 19, 20, 21, 41 and 20 more.

LOOP · 234 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 234 BPM
BARS 18-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 234 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 234 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 16 sections: 109 keep time, 26 are fills, 25 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-76.

PART E
PART K
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBKIXE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Murder?

234 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Murder hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 16 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?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 18, 19, 20, 21, 41 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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