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

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove A -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play How I Could Just Kill a Man on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-69, toms through bars 70-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-97.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- A, C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 15-41 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-53 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 54-71 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 68-95 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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