Killing Time · Metallica

168 bars at 234 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
234 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-31, 34-36 and 38-40, and 23 more places -- 72.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 234 BPM
KILLING TIME · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 32, 41, 140, 141, 166 and 2 more.

LOOP · 234 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 234 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 234 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 234 BPM
BARS 140-141 · LANDS ON BAR 142 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars: 145 keep time, 8 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-31.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Killing Time?

234 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 Time hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Time?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 32, 41, 140, 141, 166 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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