Killing for Sport · Esophagus

91 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24, 29-32 and 43-46, and 2 more places -- 54.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
KILLING FOR SPORT · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 8 sections: 45 keep time, 1 is a fill and 38 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-90.

PART A
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBACGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Killing for Sport?

140 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 for Sport hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Killing for Sport?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.

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