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EXERCISE 8 OF 61
Groove I -- Part I
75 / 237 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Killed By Life Drums on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
74/100

toms through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-30, toms through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56, kick and crashes through bars 57-59 and snare through bars 60-79, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|
Killed By Life Drums -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- S -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- CC -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Bars 11-165 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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