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Skeksis · Strapping Young Lad

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EXERCISE 20 OF 42
Groove P -- Part P
63 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
BREAK
9 groovesS10BACP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skeksis on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
228 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, snare through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-48, toms through bars 49-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-60, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......7.......8.......
CC |x-------------------------------x---------------x---------------|
HH |--------o---------------o---------------o---------------o-------|
SD |x-------------------------------x---------------x---------------|
BD |----x-x-x---x-------x-------x-------x-x-x---x-------x-x-x---x---|
Skeksis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-36 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 61-73 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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