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Killing Fields · Slayer

EXERCISE 28 OF 85
Groove T -- Part T
73 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
PART H
PART T
PART X
CHORUS
PART BA
OUTRO
BREAK
11 groovesAEHBCXBA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Killing Fields on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
80/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-11, toms through bars 12-13, ride through bars 14-19 and toms through bars 20-21, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Killing Fields -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BA -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-22 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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