TheKill · 30 Seconds to Mars

108 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 92 BPM, 3:31 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 16 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
THEKILL · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 17, 33, 41, 49, 64 and 4 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 10 sections: 85 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

CHORUS
PART O
PART Q
PART U
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBUIQO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is TheKill?

92 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 TheKill hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 TheKill?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 17, 33, 41, 49, 64 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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