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Killing In The Name (5-String Bass, Std Tuning) · Rage Against The Machine

EXERCISE 25 OF 34
Groove P -- Outro
107 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGKDCJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Killing In The Name (5-String Bass, Std Tuning) on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-6, silence through bars 7-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-119.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-36 and 50-52, and 6 more places -- 48.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    50
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-----x-----------|
Killing In The Name (5-String Bass, Std Tuning) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 49, 81, 104, 105, 118 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-22 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-50 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-97 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Killing In The Name (5-String Bass, Std Tuning)?

120 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 In The Name (5-String Bass, Std Tuning) hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Killing In The Name (5-String Bass, Std Tuning)?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 49, 81, 104, 105, 118 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED