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Kiss of Judas · Dying Wish

EXERCISE 8 OF 25
2-bar fill at bar 13 and 1 more
27 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
BREAK 5
9 groovesIS11S7EF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kiss of Judas on drums

78 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 1:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
1:44
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-20, toms through bars 21-22 and snare through bars 23-25, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 19 and 23-24, and 4 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 15-47 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break 3 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Kiss of Judas?

210 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 Kiss of Judas hard to play on drums?

46 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 1:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 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 Judas?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED