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Kill The Poor · Dead Kennedys

EXERCISE 39 OF 40
Run S121 · Outro 2 (bars 148-152)
136 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIEGS2V+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kill The Poor on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, toms through bars 18-37, ride through bars 38-45, toms through bars 46-65 and ride through bars 66-81, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |------------f---|
T1 |----x-x---------|
FT |----x-x---------|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Kill The Poor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- I, J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-18 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 44-82 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 9 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 117-142 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 140-148 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED