Shedding Skin · Pantera

190 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 21 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
SHEDDING SKIN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 32, 48, 66, 82, 98 and 15 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 134 · LANDS ON BAR 135

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 11 sections: 146 keep time, 21 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART P
PART V
7 groovesKBVFP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shedding Skin?

144 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 Shedding Skin hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Shedding Skin?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 32, 48, 66, 82, 98 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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