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Kill The King · Rainbow

EXERCISE 3 OF 46
Fill at bar 10, 112 and 256 (a small one)
169 / 261 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART S3, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART S3
PART P
PART P
PART P
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
9 groovesHPAS3R+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kill The King on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
235 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
261
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-57, snare through bars 58-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-100, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Kill The King -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- H, P -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part S3 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 117-130 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 204-255 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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