My Name is Murder · Brendon Small

179 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-17 and 21, and 10 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
MY NAME IS MURDER · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 49, 51, 97 and 17 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 13 sections: 114 keep time, 23 are fills, 26 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-96.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART O
PART P
PART S
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBDVSP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Name is Murder?

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

Is My Name is Murder hard to play on drums?

58 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Name is Murder?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 49, 51, 97 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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