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Murderer · Impending Doom

Murderer · Impending Doom
EXERCISE 15 OF 49
Groove F -- Part F
64 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART F
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Murderer on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-67, silence through bars 68-74 and snare through bars 75-98.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- T -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 1-21 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-29 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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