kill me yourself · dysmn

127 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-38, 57 and 59, and 7 more places -- 58.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
KILL ME YOURSELF · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 52, 56, 63, 68, 71, 87 and 5 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 13 sections: 60 keep time, 11 are fills, 14 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-39.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
10 groovesFJS1IS4+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is kill me yourself?

180 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 me yourself hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 yourself?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 52, 56, 63, 68, 71, 87 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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