Killin' Me · Drowning Pool

101 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 15 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
KILLIN' ME · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 20, 24, 28 and 15 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 14 sections: 61 keep time, 21 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-19.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDIAPAB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Killin' Me?

132 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 Killin' Me hard to play on drums?

61 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Killin' Me?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 20, 24, 28 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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