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Kill Me Fast · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 21 OF 33
Join Part F to Chorus (bars 38-40)
47 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART F
PART J
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
7 groovesHFJDS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kill Me Fast on drums

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, snare through bars 14-23, hi-hat through bars 24-29, toms through bars 30-33 and snare through bars 34-41, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-19 and 34-36, and 3 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-x-----------|
Kill Me Fast -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 30, 31, 32, 33, 37 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-24 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Kill Me Fast?

77 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 Me Fast hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Me Fast?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 30, 31, 32, 33, 37 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED