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Killing for Sport · Esophagus

EXERCISE 14 OF 20
Fill at bar 72
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0 / 20 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Killing for Sport on drums

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

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-32, ride through bars 33-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-42, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Killing for Sport -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-67 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 72-84 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED