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Ska-P · Jaque al Rey

Ska-P · Jaque al Rey
EXERCISE 16 OF 48
Groove K
109 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
13 groovesIGBS10S2+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ska-P on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, silence through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-42, silence through bars 43-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-109, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- I -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and Part S6 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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