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Murders In The Rue Morgue · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 30 OF 40
Groove S -- Part S
155 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S, PART N
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART N
PART U
OUTRO
13 groovesGNUBI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Murders In The Rue Morgue on drums

182 bars, 12:08, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
12:08
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-70 and snare through bars 71-79, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-35 and 46-52, and 5 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Murders In The Rue Morgue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 15, 72, 114 and 115.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- G, I, K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-43 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-75 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 67-88 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 111-119 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 114-120 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part N and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Murders In The Rue Morgue?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Murders In The Rue Morgue hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 12:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 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 Murders In The Rue Morgue?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 15, 72, 114 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED