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[Reprise] Sandblasted Skin · Pantera

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove R -- Outro
0 / 250 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 121 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART I
OUTRO
12 groovesRICAB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 5
JOIN · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play [Reprise] Sandblasted Skin on drums

250 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-37 and snare through bars 38-41, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 120-128, 130 and 132-134, and 6 more places -- 49.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    120
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
[Reprise] Sandblasted Skin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 21, 32, 33, 64, 65 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- R, I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-42 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-88 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is [Reprise] Sandblasted Skin?

180 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 [Reprise] Sandblasted Skin hard to play on drums?

58 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

250 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 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 [Reprise] Sandblasted Skin?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 21, 32, 33, 64, 65 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 250 BARS ANALYSED