Killing In the Name Of · Rage Against The Machine

216 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 7:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
7:54
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 78-84, 86 and 88, and 11 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
KILLING IN THE NAME OF · BARS 78-79
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 53, 77, 117, 141, 143, 174 and 11 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 141 · LANDS ON BAR 142
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 143 · LANDS ON BAR 144

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 17 sections: 147 keep time, 17 are fills, 28 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 146-173.

PART A
PART H
PART I
CHORUS
PART H
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
14 groovesQHAOI+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Killing In the Name Of?

110 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 Of hard to play on drums?

52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 7:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Of?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 53, 77, 117, 141, 143, 174 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
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