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Killed by Death '84 · Motörhead

EXERCISE 13 OF 23
Groove K -- Part K
125 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHKLIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Killed by Death '84 on drums

155 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-7, toms through bars 8-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-155.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 18-31 and 34-39, and 9 more places -- 56.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Killed by Death '84 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 8 and 9.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part I and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part K and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Killed by Death '84?

135 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 Killed by Death '84 hard to play on drums?

57 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 Killed by Death '84?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 8 and 9.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED