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Skate Or Die · Teenage Bottlerocket

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 9 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skate Or Die on drums

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

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

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
1:49
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-34, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x---------x-|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Skate Or Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- B, A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 1-93 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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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