How I Could Just Kill a Man · Rage Against The Machine

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 25-40 and 58-60, and 1 more place -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
HOW I COULD JUST KILL A MAN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 97.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 97
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 9 sections: 84 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-93.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
5 groovesACEGIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is How I Could Just Kill a Man?

96 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 How I Could Just Kill a Man hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in How I Could Just Kill a Man?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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