Killing Ground · Elysia

192 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 64-69, 72-77 and 140-146 -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
KILLING GROUND · BARS 64-65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 6, 26, 27, 47, 59 and 15 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 20 sections: 111 keep time, 21 are fills, 35 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-118.

CHORUS
PART T
PART Z
PART AF
PART AG
PART AH
PART L
15 groovesMATZAF+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Killing Ground?

150 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 Ground hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Killing Ground?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 6, 26, 27, 47, 59 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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