Kill The King · Rainbow

261 bars at 235 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
235 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
261
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-35 and 37-39, and 17 more places -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 235 BPM
KILL THE KING · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 15, 75, 101 and 11 more.

LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 235 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

261 bars across 15 sections: 171 keep time, 17 are fills, 57 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 164-185.

PART A
CHORUS
PART S3
PART P
PART P
PART P
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
9 groovesHPAS3R+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kill The King?

235 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 The King hard to play on drums?

63 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

261 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 15, 75, 101 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 261 BARS ANALYSED
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