killed by life better · Watem

256 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 5:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
256
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 99 and 102, and 6 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
KILLED BY LIFE BETTER · BAR 102
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 24, 40, 41, 47, 88, 92 and 19 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

256 bars across 26 sections: 180 keep time, 26 are fills, 16 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 218-237.

PART F
PART N
PART N
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART W
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesIFNWE+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is killed by life better?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is killed by life better hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

256 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 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 killed by life better?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 24, 40, 41, 47, 88, 92 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 256 BARS ANALYSED
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