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Killed by Death · Motörhead

EXERCISE 17 OF 27
Groove N
138 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
PART G
PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesMKGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Killed by Death on drums

155 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-30, snare through bars 31-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-54, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-18, 20 and 22, and 16 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Killed by Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 39 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- K, M -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part G -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-26 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Killed by Death?

130 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 hard to play on drums?

50 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Killed by Death?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 39 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED