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Gentleman Kill · ENTH

EXERCISE 9 OF 90
Groove D -- Part D
60 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 90 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART AO
PART Z
PART S16
OUTRO
17 groovesUABS16ZI+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 5
JOIN · 18
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gentleman Kill on drums

185 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-21, hi-hat through bars 22-23, toms through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37 and toms through bars 38-39, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-45, 66-69 and 99-106, and 1 more place -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Gentleman Kill -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 9, 19, 20, 21, 24 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- U, Z -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 6-40 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-28 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gentleman Kill?

225 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 Gentleman Kill hard to play on drums?

61 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 20 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 Gentleman Kill?

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 9, 19, 20, 21, 24 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED