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Kiss Of Deathh · Tinsley Ellis

Kiss Of Deathh · Tinsley Ellis
EXERCISE 17 OF 18
Join Outro to Break (bars 50-52)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, BREAK
PART D
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesBS4DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kiss Of Deathh on drums

75 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 64 BPM, 6:55 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
6:55
DIFFICULTY
30/100

hi-hat through bars 2-51 and silence through bars 52-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-6 and 9, and 10 more places -- 52% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Kiss Of Deathh -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 11, 37 and 41.

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, C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Kiss Of Deathh?

64 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Kiss Of Deathh hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 6:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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 Kiss Of Deathh?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 11, 37 and 41.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED