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The Kill · 30 Seconds to Mars

EXERCISE 14 OF 56
Join Part D to Part B (bars 23-25)
129 / 220 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART B
PART B
PART D
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Kill on drums

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.

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
188 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-49, snare through bars 50-55, hi-hat through bars 56-114, snare through bars 115-131 and toms through bars 132-140, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
BD |x-----x---x-|
The Kill -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- J, K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-155 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-121 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-95 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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