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A Skeleton Song · Luke Bowman

A Skeleton Song · Luke Bowman
EXERCISE 8 OF 23
Join Part E to Chorus (bars 18-20)
72 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Skeleton Song on drums

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

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
41/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-79, silence through bars 80-105 and ride through bars 106-128.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |--------------x-|
SD |---------xx-x-x-|
BD |xxxxx-x-xxxxx-x-|
A Skeleton Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- I, C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-19 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-38 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-80 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED