The Kill · Stella Lefty

68 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-19, 21-51 and 53-68 -- 97.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
THE KILL · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 52.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars: 66 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-51.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Kill?

115 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?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 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?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 52.

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