A Skeleton Song · Luke Bowman

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-37 and 46-59 -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
A SKELETON SONG · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 11 sections: 93 keep time, 1 is a stop and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-127.

PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
BREAK 3
OUTRO
8 groovesICS10LE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Skeleton Song?

98 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 A Skeleton Song hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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