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Skante · Bodybox

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove A
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CHORUS
PART F
PART I
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCEKNI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skante on drums

81 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 1:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
1:49
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-47, toms through bars 48-50, hi-hat through bars 51-55, kick and crashes through bars 56-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-65, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 4-6 and 9-14, and 4 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 3, 16, 19, 24, 32 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- A, K -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-26 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-50 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-65 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Skante?

178 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Skante 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 1:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Skante?

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 3, 16, 19, 24, 32 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED