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The Kill (Bury Me) · Thirty Seconds to Mars

EXERCISE 11 OF 55
Join Chorus to Part H (bars 29-31)
137 / 214 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Kill (Bury Me) on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 2-44, snare through bars 45-49, hi-hat through bars 50-94, snare through bars 95-125, toms through bars 126-134 and snare through bars 135-141, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
BD |x-----x---x-|
The Kill (Bury Me) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 31-96 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-82 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-210 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 114-124 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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