Killers · Iron Maiden

212 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 5:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-43, 46-47 and 50-51, and 17 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 154 BPM
KILLERS · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 9, 10, 14, 20, 24, 25 and 44 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

212 bars across 22 sections: 136 keep time, 50 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-57.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AD
CHORUS 3
PART X
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
9 groovesMQXFS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Killers?

154 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Killers hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in 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?

212 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Killers?

17 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 9, 10, 14, 20, 24, 25 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED
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