Killed By Life Drums · Watem

237 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 38-39 and 83-85, and 6 more places -- 14.7% 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 DRUMS · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 54, 57 and 45 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 2-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 57-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 20 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

237 bars across 16 sections: 143 keep time, 51 are fills, 22 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-38.

PART I
PART N
PART U
PART S4
CHORUS
PART T
PART N
PART BZ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesSNUCCS4+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Killed By Life Drums?

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 Drums hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

237 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Drums?

6 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 54, 57 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 237 BARS ANALYSED
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