Kill Caustic · AFI

133 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-8, 11-16 and 23, and 3 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 202 BPM
KILL CAUSTIC · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 34, 75, 83, 106, 107 and 123.

LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
LOOP · 202 BPM
BARS 106-107 · LANDS ON BAR 108 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 18 sections: 91 keep time, 6 are fills, 19 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-17.

PART C
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART Q
PART S13
PART S
PART U
OUTRO 2
9 groovesICAHS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kill Caustic?

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

Is Kill Caustic hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 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 Kill Caustic?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 34, 75, 83, 106, 107 and 123.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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