Kill Or Be Killed · Spite

139 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 69-71, and 2 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
KILL OR BE KILLED · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 56, 64, 74 and 6 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 9 sections: 51 keep time, 12 are fills, 67 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLEACSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kill Or Be Killed?

185 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 Or Be Killed hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 12 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 56, 64, 74 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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