Ska-P · Jaque al Rey

169 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 50-56 and 67-68, and 6 more places -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 154 BPM
SKA-P · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 17, 37, 57, 61, 77 and 4 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 21 sections: 98 keep time, 11 are fills, 22 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
13 groovesIGBS10S2+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ska-P?

154 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 Ska-P 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ska-P?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 17, 37, 57, 61, 77 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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