Showtime · Skillet

110 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-37, 54-76 and 78-81, and 1 more place -- 61% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SHOWTIME · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 3, 4, 52 and 53.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 13 sections: 70 keep time, 4 are fills, 23 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-81.

PART D
PART S7
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
11 groovesEDS7CS11+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Showtime?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Showtime hard to play on drums?

54 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Showtime?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 3, 4, 52 and 53.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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