Kill Or Be Killed · Composers of MSB

121 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-24, 29-40 and 53-64, and 2 more places -- 56.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 190 BPM
KILL OR BE KILLED · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 15 sections: 96 keep time and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART E
PART F
OUTRO
6 groovesDCES1F+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kill Or Be Killed?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Kill Or Be Killed hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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