Our Skin Knew First · Sin Garden

176 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 57-63 and 65-70, and 11 more places -- 33.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
OUR SKIN KNEW FIRST · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 3, 4, 14, 15, 23, 24 and 38 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 14 sections: 101 keep time, 44 are fills and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-22.

PART H
PART S
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEHSACA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Our Skin Knew First?

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 Our Skin Knew First hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Our Skin Knew First?

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 3, 4, 14, 15, 23, 24 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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