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EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove E -- Part E
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PART A
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLEACSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kill Or Be Killed on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100

ride through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-11, toms through bars 12-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-15, snare through bars 16-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-66, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |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 12 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 56, 64, 74 and 6 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 -- E, M (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-33 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-91 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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