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The Killing Floor · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 21 OF 82
Join Chorus to Part N (bars 24-26)
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0 / 82 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART N
PART A
CHORUS
PART N
PART R
PART AJ
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
14 groovesKAORAJY+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Killing Floor on drums

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.

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
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-9, snare through bars 10-23, toms through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-29 and snare through bars 30-32, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- K, R -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-18 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-30 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part R and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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