I Killed a Man · Slaughter To Prevail

134 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-11, 14-19 and 22-28, and 1 more place -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
I KILLED A MAN · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 13, 21, 29, 37, 39, 41 and 19 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 11 sections: 82 keep time, 25 are fills, 1 is a stop and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-123.

CHORUS
PART J
PART O
PART V
PART O
PART S9
OUTRO
10 groovesBAIOS9V+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Killed a Man?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I Killed a Man hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 I Killed a Man?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 13, 21, 29, 37, 39, 41 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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