Celebrity Skin · Hole

88 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 2:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4, 6-9 and 18, and 5 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 134 BPM
CELEBRITY SKIN · BARS 8-9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 17, 41, 49, 57, 73 and 1 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 12 sections: 62 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-8.

INTRO
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCELJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Celebrity Skin?

134 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 Celebrity Skin hard to play on drums?

58 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Celebrity Skin?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 17, 41, 49, 57, 73 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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