My Last Words · Megadeth

145 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-44, 46-52 and 54, and 6 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
MY LAST WORDS · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 105, 109, 113, 129, 133 and 8 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 11 sections: 109 keep time, 14 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKSGBP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Last Words?

105 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 My Last Words hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 Words?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 105, 109, 113, 129, 133 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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