Skate Or Die · Teenage Bottlerocket

93 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 1:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
1:49
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 21-24 and 27-34, and 4 more places -- 51.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 205 BPM
SKATE OR DIE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 7 sections: 63 keep time and 24 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-44.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skate Or Die?

205 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 Skate Or Die hard to play on drums?

48 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 1:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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