The Kill (Bury Me) · Thirty Seconds to Mars

214 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 183 BPM, 3:30 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 38, and 50 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 183 BPM
THE KILL (BURY ME) · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 33, 64, 65, 81, 97 and 11 more.

LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 183 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 183 BPM
BARS 120-121 · LANDS ON BAR 122 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

214 bars across 19 sections: 66 keep time, 17 are fills, 104 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-30.

CHORUS
PART H
PART C
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBS18KHJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Kill (Bury Me)?

183 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 (Bury Me) hard to play on drums?

55 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?

214 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 (Bury Me)?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 33, 64, 65, 81, 97 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED
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