Kill The Poor · Dead Kennedys

152 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 5:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-37, 46-65 and 98-108, and 1 more place -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 111 BPM
KILL THE POOR · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 17, 45, 73, 81, 89 and 7 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 12 sections: 93 keep time, 16 are fills, 32 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-37.

PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART E
7 groovesIEGS2V+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kill The Poor?

111 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 Poor hard to play on drums?

48 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Poor?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 17, 45, 73, 81, 89 and 7 more.

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