Kill the DJ · Green Day

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 5 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 106 BPM
KILL THE DJ · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 6, 17, 18, 22, 26 and 21 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 10 sections: 56 keep time, 27 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-16.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCILARFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kill the DJ?

106 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Kill the DJ hard to play on drums?

56 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 the DJ?

6 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 6, 17, 18, 22, 26 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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