Killers Lick (Backin Mad) · The Art Of Yngwie Malmsteen

23 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 0:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
23
LENGTH
0:41
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20 -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
KILLERS LICK (BACKIN MAD) · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 13 and 17.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

23 bars across 2 sections: 16 keep time, 2 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Killers Lick (Backin Mad)?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Lick (Backin Mad) hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

23 bars, about 0:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Killers Lick (Backin Mad)?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 13 and 17.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 23 BARS ANALYSED
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