The Kill · 30 Seconds to Mars

220 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 188 BPM, 3:31 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39, 41 and 43, and 49 more places -- 33.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 188 BPM
THE KILL · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 23, 38, 69, 70, 71, 87 and 9 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 69-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 126-127 · LANDS ON BAR 128 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

220 bars across 20 sections: 73 keep time, 15 are fills, 94 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-17.

PART B
PART C
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesJS19BCS+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Kill?

188 BPM, in 3/4, 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 The Kill 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 The Kill?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 23, 38, 69, 70, 71, 87 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED
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