"Kiss You To Death" · Alkaline Trio

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 38-40, and 1 more place -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 106 BPM
"KISS YOU TO DEATH" · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 37, 41, 45 and 8 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 11 sections: 45 keep time, 14 are fills, 6 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-61.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART S7
PART M
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHES1MS7+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "Kiss You To Death"?

106 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 "Kiss You To Death" hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 You To Death"?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 37, 41, 45 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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