ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kill For Satan on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO: 100 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 110
LENGTH: 4:31
DIFFICULTY: 85/100

ride through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-21, ride through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-27, ride through bars 28-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-35, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 44-51 and 103-107 -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44                                               45
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------------|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-x---------|
T1 |------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------x-x-----|
T2 |------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx------------|

Kill For Satan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 19, 21 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through Part U -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
Through Part U and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
and 4 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Kill For Satan?

100 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 For Satan hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 For Satan?

9 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 19, 21 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED