Murderer · Impending Doom

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-41, 43-44 and 75-98 -- 31.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 102 BPM
MURDERER · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 12, 16, 20 and 11 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 12 sections: 60 keep time, 17 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-98.

PART A
PART F
PART L
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesTLAEO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Murderer?

102 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 Murderer hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 Murderer?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 12, 16, 20 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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