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The Kill · Thirty Seconds to Mars

EXERCISE 20 OF 54
Join Chorus 2 to Part C (bars 58-60)
155 / 215 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART C
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBS17KHC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Kill on drums

215 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 184 BPM, 3:30 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 2-94, snare through bars 95-113, hi-hat through bars 114-119, snare through bars 120-121, hi-hat through bars 122-125 and toms through bars 126-129, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 38, and 41 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 33, 64, 65, 81, 97 and 7 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 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-210 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-72 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Kill?

184 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 hard to play on drums?

57 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?

215 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 33, 64, 65, 81, 97 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED