Killing Yourself To Live · Black Sabbath

211 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 6:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
6:44
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 39-49 and 147-154, and 6 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
KILLING YOURSELF TO LIVE · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 30, 31, 33 and 45 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 33-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

211 bars across 18 sections: 131 keep time, 54 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 147-158.

PART B
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART AD
PART AH
PART AK
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
14 groovesKTAHAKB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Killing Yourself To Live?

125 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 Yourself To Live hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 6:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Yourself To Live?

17 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 30, 31, 33 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED
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