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Beneath The Skin (In The Works) · Korvus

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EXERCISE 14 OF 32
Groove G (a two-bar phrase)
73 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beneath The Skin (In The Works) on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-15, ride through bars 16-17, snare through bars 18-35, silence through bars 36-46 and snare through bars 47-60, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    106                                  107
    1...........2...........3........... 1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------------------------------|x-----------------------------------|
SD |------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----x-----|------------------------------------|
Beneath The Skin (In The Works) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- T (a two-bar phrase), F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-72 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 55-97 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED