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Shedding Skin · Pantera

EXERCISE 3 OF 58
Groove V -- Part V
46 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shedding Skin on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-50, hi-hat through bars 51-82, ride through bars 83-100, hi-hat through bars 101-116 and kick and crashes through bars 117-118, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x---------x-|
Shedding Skin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- B, K -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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