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Showtime · Skillet

EXERCISE 5 OF 25
Run S21 · Part S2 (bars 3-5)
83 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
PART D
PART S7
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
11 groovesECS7DS11+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Showtime on drums

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

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
53/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, silence through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-20, silence through bars 21-22 and snare through bars 23-39, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-37, 54-76 and 78-81, and 1 more place -- 63% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    55
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Showtime -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-18 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 11-54 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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?

53 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 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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