Skeksis · Strapping Young Lad

185 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 228 BPM, 6:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
228 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 33-40 and 46-48, and 1 more place -- 37.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 228 BPM
SKEKSIS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 and 9 more.

LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 228 BPM
BARS 49-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 10 sections: 69 keep time, 15 are fills and 92 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
9 groovesS10BACP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skeksis?

228 BPM, in 8/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Skeksis hard to play on drums?

58 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 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 6:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Skeksis?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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