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My Last Serenade · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 23 OF 50
Groove K -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
101 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Last Serenade on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, snare through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-62, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    93                       94
    1.......2.......3....... 1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------|x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------x---|------------x-x-----x---|
My Last Serenade -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-77 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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