Killing. · Ally Nicholas

104 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-20 and 31, and 14 more places -- 70% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 133 BPM
KILLING. · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 80 and 88.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 10 sections: 55 keep time, 2 are fills, 30 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-30.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
BREAK 4
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBES8S9S1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Killing.?

133 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 Killing. hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 80 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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