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Kill Again · Slayer

EXERCISE 6 OF 52
Groove S -- Part S
121 / 230 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kill Again on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
6:56
DIFFICULTY
79/100

ride through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-28, toms through bars 29-32, ride through bars 33-40 and snare through bars 41-51, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Kill Again -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 11-41 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-66 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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