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Murder · Sepultura

EXERCISE 16 OF 65
Groove L
100 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Murder on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
234 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
79/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-37, ride through bars 38-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-53, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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