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Killing Time · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove B -- Outro
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OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Killing Time on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
234 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bars 1-33, hi-hat through bars 34-53, snare through bars 54-57, hi-hat through bars 58-75, snare through bars 76-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-87, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Killing Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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