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Skante v2 · Bodybox

EXERCISE 10 OF 41
Run S21 · Break (bars 11-12)
49 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK
COUNT-IN
BREAK
BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART K
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesARMDS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skante v2 on drums

101 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 2:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

47 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
101
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-19, snare through bars 20-35, hi-hat through bars 36-74, kick and crashes through bars 75-76 and snare through bars 77-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-25, 28-33 and 75, and 3 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |------x-----x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Skante v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 35, 39, 43, 51, 55, 59 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D, M -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-36 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-52 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-101 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Skante v2?

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 v2 hard to play on drums?

47 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?

101 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 v2?

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 35, 39, 43, 51, 55, 59 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED