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Mean Green Killing Machine · Overkill

EXERCISE 1 OF 113
Groove Z -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 29
LAND · 29
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mean Green Killing Machine on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
276
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bars 1-26, hi-hat through bars 27-32, snare through bars 33-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-49, hi-hat through bars 50-65 and snare through bars 66-67, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 83 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 -- Z -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AY -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 20-27 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 27-46 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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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