Kill 'Em All · The Crown

172 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 40-42 and 44-46, and 17 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
KILL 'EM ALL · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 34, 35 and 24 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 17 sections: 112 keep time, 30 are fills, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 152-165.

PART C
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART AE
CHORUS 5
9 groovesLFUAEC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kill 'Em All?

160 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 Kill 'Em All hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 20 sittings, about 22 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 'Em All?

9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 34, 35 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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