Killing in the Name - Easy Drums · Rage Against The Machine

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-24, 34-36 and 50-57, and 2 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 109 BPM
KILLING IN THE NAME - EASY DRUMS · BARS 50-51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 7, 8, 21, 49, 81, 98 and 7 more.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BARS 98-103 · LANDS ON BAR 104 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 13 sections: 82 keep time, 13 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-97.

PART F
PART G
PART L
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJLFPAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Killing in the Name - Easy Drums?

109 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 - Easy Drums hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 in the Name - Easy Drums?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 7, 8, 21, 49, 81, 98 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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