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Killing Yourself To Live · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 1 OF 88
Groove K -- Chorus
0 / 211 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART AD
PART AH
PART AK
CHORUS 3
PART AS
CHORUS 4
PART AS
14 groovesKTAHAKB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Killing Yourself To Live on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
6:44
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-29, snare through bars 30-36, ride through bars 37-49, snare through bars 50-68 and toms through bars 69-71, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|
Killing Yourself To Live -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- K, AS -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AT -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-23 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-50 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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