Blistering Skin · Manhunt

170 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 53-59 and 170-176 -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BLISTERING SKIN · BARS 53-54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 32, 49 and 25 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 25 sections: 106 keep time, 33 are fills, 13 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 171-178.

PART G
PART J
PART N
PART AB
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
21 groovesAIABJSN+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blistering Skin?

190 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 Blistering Skin hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Blistering Skin?

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 32, 49 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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