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Killing Strangers · Marilyn Manson

EXERCISE 11 OF 39
Join Part H to Chorus (bars 16-18)
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0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO 2
8 groovesELS13MC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Killing Strangers on drums

166 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
6:04
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-14, toms through bars 15-17, hi-hat through bars 18-76 and toms through bars 77-78, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 21-23 and 27-29, and 11 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Killing Strangers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 52.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- E, L, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-37 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part M and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-60 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 93-110 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Killing Strangers?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Strangers hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 6:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Strangers?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED