Wings Of Feather And Wax · Killer Be Killed

155 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 11-16 and 19-24, and 14 more places -- 48.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 185 BPM
WINGS OF FEATHER AND WAX · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 18, 25, 26, 33, 34 and 17 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 9 sections: 116 keep time, 23 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-56.

CHORUS
PART U
PART X
PART Z
PART AB
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCABACAEU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wings Of Feather And Wax?

185 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 Wings Of Feather And Wax hard to play on drums?

60 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Wings Of Feather And Wax?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 18, 25, 26, 33, 34 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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