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My Name is Murder · Brendon Small

My Name is Murder · Brendon Small
EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 179 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Name is Murder on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-17, toms through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33 and snare through bars 34-41, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
My Name is Murder -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H (a two-bar phrase), D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-48 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-179 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-66 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Break 2 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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