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.

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

TEMPO

132 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

101

LENGTH

3:04

DIFFICULTY

61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-47 and snare through bars 48-56, and 5 more changes after that.

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-xx|
BD |x--x------x-----|

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

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- D, I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Bars 13-25 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
5. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
6. Bars 33-96 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
8. Through Part P and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 4 more sittings after that.