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Killing Ground · Elysia

EXERCISE 1 OF 86
Groove T -- Part T (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART T
PART Z
PART AF
PART AG
PART T
PART AH
PART L
15 groovesMATZAF+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 18
LINK · 11
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Killing Ground on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-14, hi-hat through bars 15-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-27, snare through bars 28-35 and kick and crashes through bars 36-37, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    64               65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-x---x-|--xx--x---x---x-|
Killing Ground -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- T, A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-96 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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