Killing Fields · Slayer

166 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-19, 22-28 and 108-110, and 1 more place -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
KILLING FIELDS · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 5, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21 and 47 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 11-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 12 sections: 91 keep time, 53 are fills, 3 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-132.

PART H
PART X
CHORUS
PART BA
OUTRO
BREAK
11 groovesAEHBCXBA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Killing Fields?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Killing Fields hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 Fields?

22 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 5, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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