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KiLLiNG ME tab · SiM

EXERCISE 32 OF 64
Join Part D to Part W (bars 64-66)
91 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART W
PART D
PART D
PART R
PART D
PART W
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AG
OUTRO
11 groovesYDAGACR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play KiLLiNG ME tab on drums

149 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-89, silence through bars 90-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-108, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74-79, 81-83 and 85-87, and 1 more place -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    74
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x-------x-----|
BD |x-----x-x---x---|
KiLLiNG ME tab -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- Y, D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-39 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-57 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-89 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is KiLLiNG ME tab?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is KiLLiNG ME tab hard to play on drums?

55 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in KiLLiNG ME tab?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED