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Kill or be Killed · Jutes

EXERCISE 11 OF 37
Groove G
44 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART R
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kill or be Killed on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-31, hi-hat through bars 32-37, snare through bars 38-56, hi-hat through bars 57-65 and snare through bars 66-73, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    15                       16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----x-----|------------x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----------x-|x-x---x---x-----x-x---x-|
Kill or be Killed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- J, D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-62 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-73 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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