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KiLLKiSS · Ave Mujica

EXERCISE 3 OF 47
Groove Q -- Part Q
26 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S, CHORUS 2, PART Q
PART E
CHORUS
PART S
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART A
PART Q
PART G
PART Q
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesKQSAE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play KiLLKiSS on drums

139 bars, 22:14, at 25 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
25 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
22:14
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-34, snare through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-43 and toms through bars 44-46, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 20, and 9 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |-------x-x------|
HH |-o-----------o--|
SD |-----x-------x--|
BD |-x-x---x---xx---|
KiLLKiSS -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 11 times: bars 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-15 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-60 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is KiLLKiSS?

25 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is KiLLKiSS hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 22:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 16 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 KiLLKiSS?

1 fill to learn, played 11 times: bars 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED