Beneath The Skin (In The Works) · Korvus

129 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 2:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 106-122, 124-126 and 128, and 2 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 202 BPM
BENEATH THE SKIN (IN THE WORKS) · BARS 106-107
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 71, 92, 93, 94, 95 and 2 more.

LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 202 BPM
BARS 92-96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 137
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 9 sections: 54 keep time, 8 are fills, 40 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART B
PART F
PART K
PART S4
PART B
PART F
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS8FBKV+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beneath The Skin (In The Works)?

202 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Beneath The Skin (In The Works) hard to play on drums?

61 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Beneath The Skin (In The Works)?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 71, 92, 93, 94, 95 and 2 more.

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