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The Kill (cover) · UNTIL WE FADE

EXERCISE 30 OF 60
Join Part E to Part L (bars 75-77)
171 / 217 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART L
PART A
PART E
PART J
PART D
PART E
PART L
PART M
CHORUS
OUTRO
14 groovesS17MEJL+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Kill (cover) on drums

212 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
212
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-42, snare through bars 43-47, hi-hat through bars 48-92, snare through bars 93-123, toms through bars 124-132 and snare through bars 133-139, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32, 34 and 36, and 50 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
BD |x-----x---x-|
The Kill (cover) -- 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 15, 31, 62, 63, 79, 95 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- L, J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-94 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-87 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 108-208 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Kill (cover)?

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 (cover) 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?

212 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 (cover)?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 15, 31, 62, 63, 79, 95 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED