Skate · Silk Sonic, Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak

94 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-16 and 27-29, and 7 more places -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
SKATE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 34, 62, 69 and 4 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 69-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 10 sections: 71 keep time and 10 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-48.

PART D
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHLPYJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skate?

112 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 Skate hard to play on drums?

59 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Skate?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 34, 62, 69 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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