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Killin' Me · Drowning Pool

EXERCISE 26 OF 51
Groove P -- Part P
74 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Killin' Me on drums

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 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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-xx|
BD |x--x------x-----|
Killin' Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

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.
  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. Open above.
  8. Through Part P and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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