Killing a Camera · Braid

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 2:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 5 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 79 BPM
KILLING A CAMERA · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 17, 30, 45 and 54.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 5 sections: 40 keep time, 5 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-13.

INTRO
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCGBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Killing a Camera?

79 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 Killing a Camera hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 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 Killing a Camera?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 17, 30, 45 and 54.

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