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Finish Line · Skillet

EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S5
PART D
OUTRO
4 groovesBADS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Finish Line on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
33/100

toms through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-45, silence through bars 46-51 and snare through bars 52-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-24 and 29-35, and 3 more places -- 63.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Finish Line -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 43-66 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Finish Line?

81 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 Finish Line hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED