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The Kill · Jessie Ware

The Kill · Jessie Ware
EXERCISE 7 OF 22
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 15-17)
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0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDCBEF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Kill on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-20, 33-36 and 41-48, and 2 more places -- 41% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
The Kill -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-37 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 37-50 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-73 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Kill?

102 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Kill hard to play on drums?

52 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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