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Generic Skincare · Coilguns

Generic Skincare · Coilguns
EXERCISE 4 OF 77
Groove E -- Part E
30 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART Q
PART E
PART J
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART Q
CHORUS 4
PART AG
PART E
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBAREQJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 11
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Generic Skincare on drums

195 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-49 and snare through bars 50-81, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 24 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---x---x-|
SD |------x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Generic Skincare -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 21, 29, 33 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-111 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-32 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-42 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-59 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-134 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Generic Skincare?

200 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 Generic Skincare hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Generic Skincare?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 21, 29, 33 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED