Greed Killing · Napalm Death

98 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-10, 12 and 14, and 9 more places -- 36.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
GREED KILLING · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 12 sections: 82 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-32.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGEFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Greed Killing?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Greed Killing hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Greed Killing?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

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