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Pink Skies V2 · Zach Bryan

Pink Skies V2 · Zach Bryan
EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove H -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART B
PART S5
CHORUS
7 groovesHCS1BS5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pink Skies V2 on drums

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 2:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-23, hi-hat through bars 24-32, silence through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56 and kick and crashes through bars 57-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-49 and 51, and 1 more place -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x--x|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Pink Skies V2 -- 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 12 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 -- H, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-59 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Pink Skies V2?

88 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 Pink Skies V2 hard to play on drums?

34 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED