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New Skin · Incubus

EXERCISE 10 OF 46
Groove D
70 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART H, PART E
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesICHEN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Skin on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-42 and snare through bars 43-50, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 51-53, and 6 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--x-x----|
New Skin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 16, 24 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- I, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-25 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-40 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is New Skin?

125 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 New Skin hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 New Skin?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 16, 24 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED