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Killing In the Name Of · Rage Against The Machine

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove Q -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Killing In the Name Of on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
7:54
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-48, snare through bars 49-62, hi-hat through bars 63-69 and snare through bars 70-77, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    78                               79
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x-------x---------------x---|--------x---x-------------------|
Killing In the Name Of -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- Q, A -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-21 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-69 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-61 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 90-167 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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