My Last Serenade · Killswitch Engage

184 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 93-106 and 169-179 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
MY LAST SERENADE · BARS 93-94
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 27, 28, 45, 76, 84, 92 and 4 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 15 sections: 91 keep time, 10 are fills, 43 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 136-151.

COUNT-IN
PART G
CHORUS
PART P
PART T
PART W
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKPTS1C+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Last Serenade?

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

Is My Last Serenade hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 My Last Serenade?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 27, 28, 45, 76, 84, 92 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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