Twist My Sister · Murderdolls

98 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:07 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalPunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 36 more places -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 185 BPM
TWIST MY SISTER · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 9, 19, 24, 25, 33 and 13 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 6 sections: 57 keep time, 19 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-73.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBHDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Twist My Sister?

185 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 Twist My Sister hard to play on drums?

54 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Twist My Sister?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 9, 19, 24, 25, 33 and 13 more.

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