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Kill Caustic · AFI

EXERCISE 9 OF 42
Groove F (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kill Caustic on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 3-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26, ride through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34 and ride through bars 35-38, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-----------|----------------|
HH |--------x---x---|x---x---x-----o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|x-x-----x-x---x-|
Kill Caustic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-35 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 38-76 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-85 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 85-100 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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