The Killing Floor · Lamb Of God

172 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-23, 30-32 and 60-65, and 1 more place -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
THE KILLING FLOOR · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13 and 34 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 5-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 20 sections: 93 keep time, 40 are fills, 6 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-112.

PART A
PART R
PART AJ
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
14 groovesKAORAJY+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Killing Floor?

165 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Killing Floor 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Killing Floor?

19 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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