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Drill the Skull · Necrot

Drill the Skull · Necrot
EXERCISE 4 OF 67
Fill at bar 16, 108 and 228
143 / 237 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 3, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART C
PART C
PART AG
OUTRO
8 groovesACAGOS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drill the Skull on drums

237 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 5:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-25, snare through bars 26-34, hi-hat through bars 35-49, snare through bars 50-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-67, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 26-28 and 30-32, and 15 more places -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Drill the Skull -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 25, 33, 50 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-28 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 57-120 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 150-159 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 158-173 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Drill the Skull?

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

Is Drill the Skull 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

237 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Drill the Skull?

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 25, 33, 50 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 237 BARS ANALYSED