Killed to death by piracy · Alestorm

162 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-38 and 60, and 5 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
KILLED TO DEATH BY PIRACY · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 57 and 22 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 11 sections: 102 keep time, 30 are fills and 18 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART A
CHORUS
PART K
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART AI
OUTRO
7 groovesGKEAIA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Killed to death by piracy?

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

Is Killed to death by piracy hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 to death by piracy?

18 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 57 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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