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Killed to death by piracy · Alestorm

EXERCISE 13 OF 72
Fill at bar 24 and 162
91 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART K
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGKEAIA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Killed to death by piracy on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, snare through bars 24-32, hi-hat through bars 33-55, kick and crashes through bars 56-58, hi-hat through bars 59-80 and snare through bars 81-82, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- G, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-44 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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