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Our Skin Knew First · Sin Garden

Our Skin Knew First · Sin Garden
EXERCISE 15 OF 72
Groove K -- Part K
105 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART H
PART K
PART S
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEHSACA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Our Skin Knew First on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12, toms through bars 13-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-22, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Our Skin Knew First -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-16 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 21-34 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-40 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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