Kill Again · Slayer

230 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 6:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
6:56
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-27 and 33-40, and 7 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
KILL AGAIN · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 78, 86, 142, 158, 166 and 1 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 142 · LANDS ON BAR 143

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

230 bars across 23 sections: 198 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 168-190.

CHORUS
PART P
PART S
PART P
PART S
PART U
CHORUS 6
PART P
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGPSUE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kill Again?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Kill Again hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 6:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Kill Again?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 78, 86, 142, 158, 166 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED
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