Kill Your Boss · Modern Warfare

137 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78-80, 82-84 and 86-92, and 5 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 215 BPM
KILL YOUR BOSS · BAR 78
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 41, 57, 76 and 6 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 76-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 12 sections: 97 keep time, 13 are fills, 17 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-117.

PART D
PART G
PART H
PART G
PART H
PART J
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMDGHJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kill Your Boss?

215 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 Your Boss hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Your Boss?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 41, 57, 76 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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