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kill me yourself · dysmn

EXERCISE 5 OF 38
Join Part S2 to Chorus (bars 23-25)
68 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART S2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play kill me yourself on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-23, hi-hat through bars 24-39, silence through bars 40-51, snare through bars 52-53, silence through bars 54-55 and snare through bars 56-71, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
kill me yourself -- 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 52, 56, 63, 68, 71, 87 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 23-40 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S5 and the Break 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 3 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-69 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 88-127 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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