Mean Green Killing Machine · Overkill

276 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 5:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
276
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-56, 60-64 and 68-72, and 17 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 198 BPM
MEAN GREEN KILLING MACHINE · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 82 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 33, 38, 39 and 76 more.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 198 BPM
BARS 38-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

276 bars across 19 sections: 143 keep time, 82 are fills, 17 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 200-210.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART AR
PART AY
PART BD
PART BS
17 groovesZAYARAEBD+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mean Green Killing Machine?

198 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 Mean Green Killing Machine hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

276 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Mean Green Killing Machine?

29 fills to learn, played 82 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 33, 38, 39 and 76 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 276 BARS ANALYSED
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