Kill The King · Megadeth

133 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-15 and 18-20, and 7 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
KILL THE KING · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 24, 34, 51, 59, 69 and 20 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 9 sections: 84 keep time, 27 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-50.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART G
PART J
PART G
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesQGJDAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kill The King?

145 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 King hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The King?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 24, 34, 51, 59, 69 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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