Kill or be Killed · Jutes

106 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 168 BPM, 3:14 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-17, 19-20 and 23, and 6 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 168 BPM
KILL OR BE KILLED · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 6, 9, 10, 12, 18 and 14 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 7 sections: 39 keep time, 20 are fills, 5 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-32.

PART A
PART J
PART R
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS7JARI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kill or be Killed?

168 BPM, in 6/4, 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 or be Killed hard to play on drums?

43 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 or be Killed?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 6, 9, 10, 12, 18 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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