← SONGS

KiLL KiSS · Ave Mujica

EXERCISE 16 OF 60
Join Chorus to Part A (bars 29-31)
59 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
PART Q
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART Q
10 groovesEABQV+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play KiLL KiSS on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, silence through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-33 and snare through bars 34-38, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 15 and 17, and 8 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---xx--x-|
KiLL KiSS -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 6, 8, 22, 29, 30, 35 and 46 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- E, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-31 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-71 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part AB -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is KiLL KiSS?

131 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 KiSS hard to play on drums?

50 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 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 KiSS?

15 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 6, 8, 22, 29, 30, 35 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED