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Killers · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 22 OF 79
Join Part G to Part F (bars 30-32)
139 / 212 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART F
PART B
PART F
PART G
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Killers on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-95, snare through bars 96-105, hi-hat through bars 106-124, snare through bars 125-126, hi-hat through bars 127-210 and snare through bars 211-212.

The beat

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.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x----x--x----|
Killers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- M, N (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-59 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 57-65 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 68-103 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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